Re: [Boost-users] boost::iterator_adaptor

From: Grisha Spivak (rustedstranger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-14 16:04:30

David Abrahams <dave <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:

> 
> We didn't think of it 
> 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/iterator/doc/iterator_facade.html#operator
> 
> explains why operator[] returns a proxy. You can write:
> 
>          int x = it[5];
>          it[3] = x;
> 
> to work around this problem.
> 

Thanks, 

I'm just learning how to use boost.iterator library to make some of my code 
more generic. Maybe construction like "it[3] = it[5];" will not be used, but 
anyways it's result looks unintuitive.