Re: Syntactical issue: should STL list Iterator be overloaded to a pointer to the current element?

From:

Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:12:08 -0400

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On 2007-09-11 16:55:14 -0400, Olumide <50295@web.de> said:

On 11 Sep, 21:49, Pete Becker <p...@versatilecoding.com> wrote:

On 2007-09-11 16:36:01 -0400, "Jim Langston" <tazmas...@rocketmail.com> said:

"Olumide" <50...@web.de> wrote in message
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On 11 Sep, 21:11, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Better? In what way "better"?

Better as in other than &(*intList_Iterator) .

&(*iterator)
is the common method used to get the address of what iterator points to.
After you see it a few times it no longer looks weird.

It looks weird that way. The parentheses aren't needed. <g>

&*iterator looks mucho weird :-) .

Not at all, unless you don't know the language well enough to understand it.

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