Re: [Boost-users] [iterator] - does there exist an opposite of Function Output Iterator?

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

Michael Fawcett wrote:

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http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/iterator/doc/function_output_itera...

Shows a unary function being adapted as an OutputIterator. Does Boost have something that does the opposite, i.e. takes an OutputIterator and adapts it as a unary function object?

using namespace boost::lambda; *var(i)++ = _1;

Thanks, as always, Steven. While clever, Boost.Lamba seems like overkill for this extremely simple task. Is it your experience that it would generate code as efficient as what I originally posted? Do you feel that such functionality doesn't belong in Boost.Iterator? I think it nicely complements function_output_iterator. --Michael Fawcett