J.Pietschmann wrote: > appropriate cast. Unfortunately, in the maintenance branch > the children vector is protected and directly accessed in a > lot of places, putting the test+cast code and the handling > of the one-child-only special case everywhere seemed to be > too much work. Writing a custom iterator for the children > list would solve this, but I *hate* writing custom iterators. > (It is harder than many people think to get it both correct > and efficient) I agree with you, but this one seems to be simple and would benefit by decoupling fo tree internal structure and its usage. Usual design pattern could be used - hierarcy of custom iterators: EmptyIterator, SingleItemIterator and ArrayIterator. I'm not aware actually whether iterators are suitable here at all, do we need random access to children?
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