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Subject: Re: [boost] Interprocess regexes
From: Jeffrey Bosboom (jbosboom_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-06 05:38:52


John Maddock wrote:
> Maybe, but it's use would be pretty limited. The std lib is entitled to
> assume that:
>
> "The typedef members pointer, const_pointer, size_type, and
> difference_type are
> required to be T*,T const*, size_t, and ptrdiff_t, respectively"

So why are ::pointer et al provided at all?

--Jeffrey Bosboom


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