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fixed up copyrights, some small progress on new adaptor category choice semantics

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Lab`_, University of Hanover `Institute for Transport
Railway Operation and Construction`_
:date: $Date$
:copyright: Copyright Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, Thomas Witt 2003. All rights reserved
:copyright: Copyright David Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, Thomas Witt 2003. All rights reserved
.. _`Boost Consulting`: http://www.boost-consulting.com
.. _`Open Systems Lab`: http://www.osl.iu.edu
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report. The components of the Boost Iterator Library
replace the older Boost Iterator Adaptor Library.
.. _concepts: ../../more/generic_programming.html
.. _concepts: ../../../more/generic_programming.html#concept
.. contents:: **Table of Contents**
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The iterator categories defined in C++98 are extremely limiting
because they bind together two orthogonal concepts: traversal and
element access. For example, because a random access iterator is
required to return a reference (and not a proxy) when dereferenced, it
is impossible to capture the capabilities of
``vector<bool>::iterator`` using the C++98 categories. The infamous
"``vector<bool>`` is not a container, and its iterators aren't random
access iterators", debacle about which Herb Sutter wrote two papers
for the standards comittee (n1185_ and n1211_), and a `Guru of the
Week`__. New-style iterators go well beyond patching up
``vector<bool>``, though. There are lots of other iterators already
in use which can't be adequately represented by the existing concepts.
For details about the new iterator concepts, see our
required to return a reference (and not a proxy) when dereferenced,
it is impossible to capture the capabilities of
``vector<bool>::iterator`` using the C++98 categories. This is the
infamous "``vector<bool>`` is not a container, and its iterators
aren't random access iterators", debacle about which Herb Sutter
wrote two papers for the standards comittee (n1185_ and n1211_),
and a `Guru of the Week`__. New-style iterators go well beyond
patching up ``vector<bool>``, though: there are lots of other
iterators already in use which can't be adequately represented by
the existing concepts. For details about the new iterator
concepts, see our
.. _n1185: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/N1185.pdf
.. _n1211: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/N1211.pdf