Re: Class defined Inside a Class

From:
anon <anon@no.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:46:32 +0100
Message-ID:
<gg672g$cra$1@news01.versatel.de>
Rolf Magnus wrote:

anon wrote:

To pick up the iterator example, how would you suggest to do that?


Whats wrong with it?


I'm thinking e.g. about the iterator for std::vector, which is defined within
std::vector, so it's then std::vector::iterator. How would you name the
iterator type belonging to std::vector instead? And how would that
additional namepace come into play?


This is from the gcc "vector" header:

*************************************************************
namespace __gnu_debug_def
{
   template<typename _Tp,
       typename _Allocator = std::allocator<_Tp> >
     class vector
     : public _GLIBCXX_STD::vector<_Tp, _Allocator>,
       public __gnu_debug::_Safe_sequence<vector<_Tp, _Allocator> >
     {
// some stuff

     public:

       typedef __gnu_debug::_Safe_iterator<typename _Base::iterator,vector>
       iterator;
       typedef __gnu_debug::_Safe_iterator<typename
_Base::const_iterator,vector>
       const_iterator;
*************************************************************

So, why are you saying the iterator is defined within the vector class?

Is this ok :
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/misc/iterator/iterator.html
?


Well, that's an iterator for simple arrays, but usually, an iterator type
belongs to a specific class.


Do you have an example? Explaining how the iterator is defined within
the vector class would do :)

Btw: The example on that page seems to contain an error:

  myiterator& operator++() {++p;return *this;}
  myiterator& operator++(int) {p++;return *this;}

That doesn't look right. The second operator++ is supposed to return the
previous value of *this, not the new one.


Correct.

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