[boost] Re: Proposal for New Iterator Adaptor

From: Alex Chovanec (achovane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-06 10:30:53

Believe it or not, deferred_iterator was the other name that I was
considering, but now I see that it's already in the library as
counting_iterator.

Alex

"Rob Stewart" <stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> 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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