On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> > reference operator*() const {
> > _Iterator __tmp = current;
> > return *--__tmp;
> ^^^^^^^^
> So it seems to me that it points to one before start. (i.e. its dereference
> gives that element in this implementation). Or what's the definition of
> pointing?
It does so only if you dereference things (that within operator* after
all). You are not allowed to do that for rbegin() Internally there is never
an invalid pointer stored.
> PS: I see at the c++ annotations:
>
> vector::reverse_iterator vector::rend():
> this member returns an iterator pointing before the first element in the
> vector.
This is wrong. If this is very sloppy speach it might pass as
"explanation", though.
> I guess I look at the stl
The STL has no relevance here. It's all about the Standard.
Andre'
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