Re: (const) iterator question
"2b|!2b==?" wrote:
If an iterator is a pointer, then why can't I assign an 'int' (NULL) to it?
If an iterator is a pointer, then you can assign NULL to it. Are you
sure your particular iterator type is a pointer type? Many containers,
perhaps most, have iterators that are not pointers.
This works fine in debug, but fails to compile with Release
configuration ..:
bool myParser::spellCheck(TokenList tokenList) {
TokenIterator tokenIterator = tokenList.begin();
TokenIterator lastSignificantToken = NULL; // <- complier barfs here
..
Notes:
TokenIterator is typedefed as a const_iterator to a vector of tokens ...
The key point, is whether or not const_iterator is a typedef for a
pointer type. Since your compiler complains, it's probably not.
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