Re: [Boost-users] A forward iterator need not be default-constructible

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] A forward iterator need not be default-constructible
From: Andrew Sutton (asutton.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-30 13:08:52

> I had thought we were discussing what was allowed on type T.

Sure, but that doesn't invalidate my statement that the standard's
limitations are too strict. I'm just thinking ahead.

> Yet "any sentence that starts with 'a clever compiler' should be viewed with
> suspicion" contradicts the very position you think is reasonable, and was
> stated as an answer to an example of an optimization a clever compiler might
> make.

I think you may have misunderstood. I think that it is a reasonable
position to view some optimizations as suspicious.