On Dec 18, 12:18 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: [lots of tangential information snipped] > ...but I don't understand why you're limiting yourself to the STL.
Because I believe the vast majority of iterators used in C++ in practice are the ones provided by STL types, therefore I felt a statement about the STL iterators reflected the commonly used power (if not the ultimate capability) of iterators in C++. I suppose it was a bit hasty. > ... "ostream_iterator" ... Well that's a good example. I retract my statement that C++ iterators in general not having this power, but I still doubt that C++ iterators are used like this much. In most code I've seen people use STL or similar data structures, and then use the iterators for the particular data type, and/or pointers. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list