Re: [boost] Proposal for New Iterator Adaptor

From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-06 10:08:42

From: "Alex Chovanec" <achovane_at_[hidden]>
> 
> When you dereference an instance of the adapted iterator type Iter, you get
> a const reference to its base iterator of type Base. So instead of
> delegating the dereference operation to its base and returning the result,
> the iterator adaptor simply returns its base. Since it doesn't dereference
> its base, I would probably name it "lazy_iterator", or something like that.

The idea is intriguing, but the iterator isn't lazy, it just
doesn't dereference ("lazy" suggests that it will do the work on
demand, not immediately).  A better name would be
"deferred_iterator" or "iterator_iterator."

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