What exactly can you assign to a set iterator, by assignment or
initialisation? (is this covered in Josuttis? I can't find it).
Some (limited) digging around in the Gnu code shows no operator=, but
2 ctors for iterators, and 3 for const_iterators . For const_iterator,
there's a no-parameter ctor, and a ctor which takes another
const_iterator. The 3rd one is more interesting - it takes a pointer
to a node in the R/B tree, and the iterator itself is actually a
pointer to a node.
This makes me think that there may actually be a way to assign a
pointer to an iterator, with the right runes. If there isn't one, can
anyone tell me why this isn't allowed?
Thanks
Dom 1 1919
Dom Gilligan wrote: What exactly can you assign to a set iterator, by assignment or initialisation? (is this covered in Josuttis? I can't find it).
You mean like
set<int>::itera tor it;
it = ??? // what is allowed here?
From what I see in the Standard, the iterators for containers are
implementation-defined, and the only requirement on the std::set iterators
is that they are of the bidirectional kind. The only assignment defined
for a bidirectional iterator is from another bidirectional iterator.
Some (limited) digging around in the Gnu code shows no operator=, but 2 ctors for iterators, and 3 for const_iterators . For const_iterator, there's a no-parameter ctor, and a ctor which takes another const_iterator. The 3rd one is more interesting - it takes a pointer to a node in the R/B tree, and the iterator itself is actually a pointer to a node.
The absence of an explicit operator= suggests that only the compiler-
generated copy assignment can be used. Just like I said, only assignment
from another iterator.
This makes me think that there may actually be a way to assign a pointer to an iterator, with the right runes. If there isn't one, can anyone tell me why this isn't allowed?
Assignment from a pointer will yield creation of a temporary iterator
from the pointer and the assignment from that iterator:
set<int>::itera tor it;
it = somepointer;
is the same as
set<int>::itera tor it;
it = set<int>::itera tor(somepointer );
Since set<int>::itera tor is implementation-defined, there is nothing
in C++ to say about what constructors it should or should not have.
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