From: Anthony Williams (anthwil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-04 03:51:46


Carlo Wood writes:
> Also, the input iterator cannot be used because the code
> makes use of pointers into it at arbitrary places. Using
> an input iterator would only be possible if we'd first copy
> the whole input to a temporal string - and that makes no sense.

You could specify that only forward iterators were supported.

Anthony