>Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> At 04:17 PM 7/12/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> >> A single-pass iterator is required to support r++ (inherited from the
>> >> incrementable iterator requirements), but I guess that we've
>> >> unintentionally dropped the requiremnt for *r++ of readable
>> >> single-pass iterator, by allowing incrementable iterators to return
>> >> any type convertible to const X&. I think it should require that the
>> >> return type be X, the Assertion/Note/Precondition/Postcondition
>column
>> >> should be labelled "Operational Semantics" and the lower right entry
>> >> should be moved to the middle column. The same goes for the
>> >> lower-right entry of each of the following two tables.
>> >>
>> >> I'm going to make those changes; if there are objections, please let
>> >> me know ASAP.
>> >
>> >Done.
>>
>> In the main CVS? iterator-categories.html is still dated several days
>> ago. Or am I looking in the wrong place?
>
>I guess so. Why would I be editing a document in the multi_array lib?
I was talking about boost-root/libs/iterator/doc/iterator-categories.html, committed July 7 by Joel. That is the document I was expecting to see updated.
>I don't understand it, but Ron Garcia seems to have a fondness for >checking duplicates of information that is hosted elsewhere into his >library's tree. The source for that paper is kept in >libs/iterator/docs/new-iter-concepts.rst and I keep an HTML version >up-to-date at >http://www.boost-consulting.com/writing/new-iter-concepts.html.
Ron added that last January. He wanted something in Boost releases to refer to, IIRC..
Wouldn't it be better to bring the Boost CVS libs/iterator/doc stuff up-to-date? Particularly since there is no index.html in libs/iterator pointing to other locations.
--Beman
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