Re: [boost] Re: [filesystem] issue with path::iterator

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-11 15:32:27

David Abrahams wrote:
> Martin Wille writes:
...
>>Investigation of the problem revealed that the documenation for
>>path::iterator says it is a bidirectional iterator while the
>>implementation uses single_pass_traversal_tag. This looks
>>wrong to me.
> 
> 
> The documentation must be wrong, because the implementation never
> included a decrement implementation.
> 
> It might be possible to make the user's code compile for this case,
> but I'm not sure we would be doing him/her a service, considering
> that the concepts don't require 
> 
>   X a = b++;
> 
> to compile.

Line 95 of path.hpp declares void decrement(),
lines 669-679 in path_posix_windows implement it.

Note, this is not the directory iterator.

Regards,
m