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fixed sgi stl links
[SVN r9630]
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<H2>
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<A NAME="concept:MultiPassInputIterator"></A>
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MultiPassInputIterator
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Multi-Pass Input Iterator
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</H2>
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This concept is a refinement of <a
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href="http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/InputIterator.html">InputIterator</a>,
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href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/InputIterator.html">Input Iterator</a>,
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adding the requirements that the iterator can be used to make multiple
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passes through a range, and that if <TT>it1 == it2</TT> and
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<TT>it1</TT> is dereferenceable then <TT>++it1 == ++it2</TT>. The
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MultiPassInputIterator is very similar to the <a
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href="http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/ForwardIterator.hmtl">ForwardIterator</a>. The
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Multi-Pass Input Iterator is very similar to the <a
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href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ForwardIterator.hmtl">Forward Iterator</a>. The
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only difference is that a <a
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href="http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/ForwardIterator.hmtl">ForwardIterator</a>
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href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ForwardIterator.hmtl">Forward Iterator</a>
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requires the <TT>reference</TT> type to be <TT>value_type&</TT>, whereas
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MultiPassInputIterator is like <a
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href="http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/InputIterator.html">InputIterator</a>
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href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/InputIterator.html">Input Iterator</a>
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in that the <TT>reference</TT> type merely has to be convertible to
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<TT>value_type</TT>.
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@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ in that the <TT>reference</TT> type merely has to be convertible to
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comments by Valentin Bonnard:
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<p> I think that introducing MultiPassInputIterator isn't the right
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solution. Do you also want to define MultiPassBidirectionnalIterator
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and MultiPassRandomAccessIterator ? I don't, definitly. It only
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<p> I think that introducing Multi-Pass Input Iterator isn't the right
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solution. Do you also want to define Multi-Pass Bidirectionnal Iterator
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and Multi-Pass Random Access Iterator ? I don't, definitly. It only
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confuses the issue. The problem lies into the existing hierarchy of
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iterators, which mixes movabillity, modifiabillity and lvalue-ness,
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and these are clearly independant.
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@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ and these are clearly independant.
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movabillity and shouldn't be used to mean anything else. In a
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completly orthogonal way, iterators can be immutable, mutable, or
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neither. Lvalueness of iterators is also orthogonal with
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immutabillity. With these clean concepts, your MultiPassInputIterator
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immutabillity. With these clean concepts, your Multi-Pass Input Iterator
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is just called a Forward Iterator.
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<p>
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@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ The above analysis by Valentin is right on. Of course, there is
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the problem with backward compatibility. The current STL implementations
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are based on the old definition of Forward Iterator. The right course
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of action is to get Forward Iterator, etc. changed in the C++ standard.
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Once that is done we can drop MultiPassInputIterator.
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Once that is done we can drop Multi-Pass Input Iterator.
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