Evan Driscoll wrote:
I'm trying to use the iterator_facade and am running into trouble. It's not really caused by the iterator_facade, but I figured I'd ask anyway. This takes some explanation, so if anyone reads this, know that I *do* appreciate it. :-)
TLDR version: I'm getting a compiler error about converting between pointers of iterator_facade<> instantiations with different const qualifications on the value_type. The code's attached, in addition to mostly appearing (with a few minor formatting changes) inline below. Please help me figure out what to do to fix it.
What I'm doing is a bit roundabout, but here goes.
One fault with C++ iterators (at least from some point of view) is that if you want to operate on different kinds of iterators you have to care about too much -- you need to know more than just the type that op* returns (which is all you care about most of the time, iterator_traits notwithstanding), but what the underlying iterator type is. This means that if you want to write code that operates on multiple kinds of iterators, it must be a template.
You might google any_iterator, and see how other authors have addressed similar problems. Jeff