It is the type used to represent the difference between two iterators of the same type. Usually it is ptr_diff for regular c/c++ pointers, since they are considered random access iterators and there's a specialized iterator_traits for them(i mean pointers).
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 05:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know what is the value of ' _Iterator::difference_type ' as > it is stated in: > 'std::iterator_traits' i.e. typedef _Iterator::difference_type > difference_type. > Thanks in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > help-gplusplus mailing list > help-gplusplus@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus -- John V. Shahid _______________________________________________ help-gplusplus mailing list help-gplusplus@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus