From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-11 06:41:56
>I believe the overall consensus was that operator* should be stable, so
the
>above *i == *i is valid. There were a few arguments, though my favorite is
>that the find_if() algorithm's result iterator is useless unless operator*
is
>stable:
Good point, and as you say you can always cache the value to ensure
stability.
- John Maddock
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