From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-06 19:31:08
At 03:06 PM 8/6/2003, Thomas Witt wrote:
>The whole point in adapting is that you modify some but not all
>behaviour/interface of a thing. Ther is nothing a pair provides that can
>be reused so adaption is pointless.
>
>That's why the new version provides iterator_facade and
>iterator_adaptor. iterator_facade helps with implementing iterators,
>iterator_adaptor is for adapting iterator like types.
I found this separation of usages into iterator_facade and iterator_adaptor
to be a vast improvement, FWIW. It seems to have resolved all the
frustrations I felt with the old interface.
--Beman