Maarten Kronenburg wrote:
Rene, The user can define an iterator with the bit access functions highest_bit and get_sub.
OK, so there's an equivalent to size(). Which the iterator code I posted earlier would have to manipulate into the iteration interval.
The get_sub is O(1) when nbits is limited. Then the user must define what is iterated over, bits or bytes or words or...
No they don't, if you don't want them to. You can define a fixed unit your class iterates over. And even if you wanted the user to define what is iterated over you could make just the method that returns the pointers/iterators templated.
The integer class is not a template, because templates do not provide run-time polymorphism.
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