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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] A forward iterator need not be default-constructible
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-03 12:51:56

on Mon Oct 03 2011, Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco-AT-osl.iu.edu> wrote:

> Another complicating issue is that an iterator is singular or
> non-singular with respect to a particular container.  For example,
> given the following declarations:
>
> int a[5], b[5];
>
> and assuming a and b are contiguous in memory, &a[5] is a singular
> iterator for the array a

It's a PTE iterator, which is not minimally singular.

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Dave Abrahams
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