Re: Question about function template(from Thinking in C++ book)
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Pavel A. wrote:
Igor Tandetnik wrote:
.......
Obviously, Iter is intended to be analogous to a double pointer - a
pointer into a collection of pointers to objects (perhaps smart
pointers). Something along the lines of:
....
But iterator can have a typecast operator to a single pointer,
so that double indirection won't be needed?
Yes, one could write drawAll to assume a single level of indirection, then
use something like
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/iterator/doc/indirect_iterator.html
I wouldn't do this though, because you lose generality and mislead future
programmers reading the source. With the posted code, Iter can be any kind
of iterator or even a raw pointer. Using a single level of indirection with
raw pointers would be a disaster, polymorphism and pointer arithmetic don't
mix.
In order to use an indirect_iterator the code should be detemplatized or at
least the template parameter should be the target type not the iterator
type.
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Igor Tandetnik
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