Re: [boost] [ptr_container] How to shift part of a ptr_vector ?

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-02 07:19:41

Phil Endecott skrev:
> Herve Bronnimann wrote:
>> Phil:  Pardon my ignorance about ptr_vector, but you may be thinking  
>> about the wrong STL algorithm: try rotate instead of copy:
> 
> Yes, rotate would do something similar to the for loop in my example.
> 
> The point is that ptr_containers can't use mutating std::algorithms; 
> instead, they provide their own implementations of some of them as 
> members.  rotate isn't one of them, so I need some other way of doing it.

You can access mutating iterators over the original containers by 
calling .base() no the iterators.

They are hen iterators over void*&, so you need to cast or use e.g. 
void_ptr_indirect_fun:

http://www.boost.org/libs/ptr_container/doc/indirect_fun.html

-Thorsten