Re: Testing new iterator concepts with ConceptGCC

From:
kostas <skolarik@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Sun, 20 May 2007 17:47:47 CST
Message-ID:
<1179693250.028387.212850@z24g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
On May 20, 7:16 pm, David Abrahams <d...@boost-consulting.com> wrote:

on Thu May 17 2007, kostas <skolarik-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

I had considered once to replace a map not just with a sorted vector
but, for some efficiency reasons, with two "parallel"
vectors(vector<key_type>, vector<data_type>). It came natural to me to
make up an iterator with value_type something like pair<key_type,
data_type> and reference type pair<key_type&, data_type&>.


c.f.http://www.boost.org/libs/iterator/doc/zip_iterator.html


zip_iterator is different from the iterator I described above. Its
reference and value_type are the same. Actually I tested it recently
and was very surprised to find that this code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <boost/tuple/tuple.hpp>
#include <boost/iterator/zip_iterator.hpp>

struct zip_comp
{
        bool operator()(const boost::tuple<int&, int&>& t1, const
boost::tuple<int&, int&>& t2)
        {
                return t1.get<0>()<t2.get<0>();
        }
};

int main()
{
        const int items = 10;
        std::vector<int> keys;
        std::vector<int> data;
        for(int i=0;i<items;i++) {
                keys.push_back(items-i);
                data.push_back(i);
        }
        std::sort(
                boost::make_zip_iterator(
                        boost::make_tuple(keys.begin(), data.begin())
                ),
                boost::make_zip_iterator(
                        boost::make_tuple(keys.end(), data.end())
                ),
                zip_comp()
        );

        std::copy(keys.begin(), keys.end(),
std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout, " "));
        std::cout<<std::endl;
        return 0;
}

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compiles without any problem with my gcc 4.1.2 compiler. The result
was of course disappointing.

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

Have I done something wrong? I was expecting at least some warning.

But is really going to be a
valid mutable random-access iterator according to new iterator
concepts?


No, but that's an old iterator concept. It would be a valid mutable
random access _traversal_ iterator.


I was referring to the "new old iterator concepts" for which I have
found only this announcement
http://conceptgcc.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/the-new-old-iterator-concepts

I think that might be why I never wanted to require that operator->
return the pointer type.


Thanks for the hint. I didn't know that it is not required the
operator -> to return the pointer type.

Regards
Kostas

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