Re: [boost] UTF8 library - second call for informal review

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-07 03:46:35

Nemanja Trifunovic <nemanja_trifunovic_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> Just because the vast majority of sequences will be random access doesn't 
> mean
>> we should limit ourselves to that, when it is so easy to allow the use of
>> Forward Iterators.
>> 
>
> Bidirectional maybe, but using a forward iterator would break some important 
> functionality: for instance, if an invalid sequence is detected, we step back 
> to the beginning of the sequence before reporting the error. 

Forward Iterators are copyable, so you can do this by keeping a copy of the
beginning of the sequence, and returning that on error.

Anthony
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