Re: [boost] [regex] How robust arethe<boost/regex/pending/unicode_iterator.hpp> adapters?

Subject: Re: [boost] [regex] How robust arethe<boost/regex/pending/unicode_iterator.hpp> adapters?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-26 04:07:22

>> Changing the underlying bytes after construction of the adapters is a
>> big no-no anyway.  It's an invariant that the adapter must always
>> point between two multibyte sequences, and never be left stranded in
>> the middle of one, that could be broken if we allowed the underlying
>> sequence to change at arbitrary moments in time.
> 
> I agree that it's unlikely to be needed, but a careful user could make
> such changes without ever breaking that invariant.

In which case there's no issue with the iterators.

John.