From: "Alex Chovanec" <achovane@engin.umich.edu>
When you dereference an instance of the adapted iterator type Iter, you
get
a const reference to its base iterator of type Base. So instead of delegating the dereference operation to its base and returning the result, the iterator adaptor simply returns its base. Since it doesn't dereference its base, I would probably name it "lazy_iterator", or something like
Believe it or not, deferred_iterator was the other name that I was considering, but now I see that it's already in the library as counting_iterator. Alex "Rob Stewart" <stewart@sig.com> wrote in message news:200408061508.i76F8g120778@entwistle.systems.susq.com... that.
The idea is intriguing, but the iterator isn't lazy, it just doesn't dereference ("lazy" suggests that it will do the work on demand, not immediately). A better name would be "deferred_iterator" or "iterator_iterator."
-- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer; _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: