From 5740304860878032250 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,1130da7a3640a78c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:20:05 -0500 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 From: "Nicola Musatti" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Deprecate the use of plain pointers as standard container iterators Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1147179502.790847.10110@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> References: <1146830242.416436.272780@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1147008352.734687.154540@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 riprxbr00.rit:80 (squid/2.5.STABLE3) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.239.118.101; posting-account=9n3cLg0AAABXqZC3npS4wOhEJhS9Fp-a X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:10:38 CST Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.182.171.162 X-Trace: sv3-rDL1n0BeJLuXNuXDZ4n/5fWKgKOvUZd3kuN7HnhZjV5j0gxKarla9INvruI6GpBflMtJmAFQA8WOp/j!5jn5SsBig6pjJJoc6X88iT3rzPr9qkMMpm+nrSEeEz/xuYAIu7gVNhd/jWhBTUzvFP9ht+4SmzFF!0SZzjgUSdfSGKh76tjuvZ8r3pcuIBZ9tMgzdc9EB9Q== X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:1853 Peter Dimov wrote: > Nicola Musatti wrote: > > > Hallo, > > I belive that the use of plain pointers as iterator types for standard > > library containers should be deprecated, because it limits genericity > > and portability. > > It also increases performance and presents more opportunities for > optimization. I know. A friend of mine is being hit exactly by this problem as our common supplier moved to a standard library implementation where vector iterators are user defined types by default. I still wonder if the current compromise is acceptable for everyone concerned. Cheers, Nicola Musatti P.S. At least *I* would have granted him a deprecation period ;-) --- [ 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 ]