Re: [Boost-users] regex_search: Third patch

From: David McKelvie (david_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-27 05:48:30

Great, thanks. I got your second email, but even the previous buggy patch
was enough to let me make progress. I'll wait with the new patch until 
I hear that you're happy with it.

If this is going to be a big job and a problem, it may be worth
considering if what I'm asking for isnt something outside of the concept
of a bidirectional iterator or whether boost::regex isnt asking for more than
that.

I think the original code is relatively fine as long as the 
  operator++ doesnt have to do a lot of work or dereference the iterators.
The iterator I'm using has the property that I dont know
the distance to the end or how to answer the question

    iter == end

without dereferencing(reading) the whole input.

        David