Re: [Boost-users] iteration from pure abstract classes

Hugh Hoover writes:

On Dec 3, 2005, at 15:44, David Abrahams wrote:

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Hugh Hoover writes:

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I have a need to provide STL compliant iterators from an abstract class A, that is, without knowing the runtime type of the actual "collection" being iterated.. As near as I can tell, these things

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Have you looked at boost::indirect_iterator? Just make a container of pointers to the abstract base and iterate over that :)

Thanks for the suggestion, but that won't really work.

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