On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:58 -0400, Douglas Gregor wrote:
The above statement *was* correct. The new iterator concepts were initially voted into TR1, but were later removed. Perhaps someone who was in the room when it happened could tell you more, but I'm hoping the new iterator concepts come back for C++0x. Concepts (the language feature) and move semantics force us to fix the current iterator concepts.
Jumping in the discussion with a diverging topic, sorry... Speaking of iterators, is there any attempt at making OpenMP extensions to deal with iterators (or OpenMP friendly iterators). Multicore processors are becoming the rule rather than the exception and OpenMP seems (I'm still making my first experiments) very constrained in the loops it can deal with (basically loop controled by signed integers). Of course, there are ways of using OpenMP with C++ and iterators, but this destroys quite a bit the programming model using loops over iterators. I just wonder whether this has raised some concern in the C++ community. Theo.