template error with iterator

From:
utab <umut.tabak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 12 May 2008 16:37:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<50129083-18fd-4099-9ba7-586bb9df72e2@a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
Dear all,

I was experimenting with a template taking two iterators for the range
of
a vector.(Perhaps, it is sth simple and I am missing it because it is
a
late hour.) I ran into problems in the compile phase , the code is
below:

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <vector>

using std::domain_error;
using std::sort;
using std::vector;

template <class T, class Ran>
T median(Ran b, Ran e)
{
  typedef typename vector<T>::size_type vec_sz;

  vec_sz size = (e-b)/sizeof(T);
  if (size == 0)
    throw domain_error("median of an empty vector");

  sort(b, e);

  vec_sz mid = size/2;

  return size % 2 == 0 ? (b[mid] + b[mid-1]) / 2 : b[mid];
}

int main()
{
  vector<double> vec;
  for(int i=0;i!=10;++i)
    vec.push_back(i);
  std::cout << median(vec.begin(), vec.end()) << std::endl;
  return 0;
}

I get

83.cc: In function 'int main()':
83.cc:38: error: no matching function for call to
'median(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<double*, std::vector<double,
std::allocator<double> > >, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<double*,
std::vector<double, std::allocator<double> > >)'

I am supplying the median function with iterators by using the begin
and
end member functions of the vector. However, I get a type mismatch
error
on iterators I guess. Could you clarify the problem for me?

Rgds,

--
Umut

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