Re: iterator_adaptors Comment

From: dave_abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-13 22:51:13

--- In Boost-Users_at_y..., Duane Murphy <duanemurphy_at_m...> wrote:
> There is a comment in iterator_adaptors:
> 
> public: // implementation details (too many compilers have trouble 
when
> these are private).
>     Policies& policies() { return m_iter_p.second(); }
>     const Policies& policies() const { return m_iter_p.second(); }
>     
>     Base& iter() { return m_iter_p.first(); }
>     const Base& iter() const { return m_iter_p.first(); }
> 
> 
> This seems to imply that iter() and policies() ought to be private.

This looks like an old version of the code. In the current release 
the function to access the base object is in the public interface and 
called "base()", not "iter()"

-dave