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From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-01 12:35:05
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From: <graham.shanks_at_[hidden]>
> Without wishing to gainsay the development of the Cyclic Iterator
> Adaptor in this thread I think that this is missing an important
> point. All the examples in the documentation of the iterator
> adaptor library show adapators of iterators (excluding the
> existing counting_iterator example which as Dave says may not be
> that useful).
Just to be clear: what I meant was that counting_iterator might not be a
very useful example of adapting a non-iterator, since the countable concept
is so close to that of an iterator. Counting iterators themselves are
extremely useful.