From 6056216634623504984 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,1130da7a3640a78c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "dhruv" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Deprecate the use of plain pointers as standard container iterators Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:48:35 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <1148978918.438991.200380@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1146830242.416436.272780@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1146842605.957240.37860@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1148978923 2585 127.0.0.1 (30 May 2006 08:48:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 08:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE/1.0.6-16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.18.139.109; posting-account=a49mnw0AAAAtnJmVO6AaR41qeRSSTrAN X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:2152 imho, std::advance is supposed to be able to add to any inerator type. However, it doesn't return anything, so it is not very useful in such situations. yes, boost::next() is good, but something like a combination of next & advance would be just great!!!! std::next_Kth(x,K) returning the iterator which is K ahead of x. Regards, -Dhruv. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]