Re: [boost] zip iterator over containers of unequal sizes

From: Llew Sion Goodstadt (leo.goodstadt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-26 11:50:07

> Doesn't seem like such a great idea to me.  It forces you to pay at
> each iteration of a loop when you could pay once to ensure that your
> ending zip iterator is formed from the correct position in each
> sequence.  In my opinion the zip_iterator documentation should be
> improved (quite a lot) to make the requirements more explicit.
For iterators over a container, that is indeed true. In which case,
surely it would be better to provide a constructor which calculates
the
minimum distance rather than relying on the user to remember to check
beforehand.

Leo