Re: input iterators and substitution property
On May 10, 5:27 pm, Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherci...@gmx.net> wrote:
subramanian10...@yahoo.com, India wrote:
* red floyd <redfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 10, 8:41 am, "subramanian10...@yahoo.com, India"
<subramanian10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Suppose 'a' and 'b' are input iterators.
In the ISO/IEC 14882:2003 document, in section '24.1.1 Input
Iterators' in page 517, item 3 (below table 72) mentions the
following:
For input iterators 'a and 'b', 'a == b' does not imply '++a == ++b'.
I am unable to understand this sentence. Kindly give an
example where, for two input iterators 'a' and 'b', we
have 'a == b' holds good but '++a' is not equal to
'++b'. I am unable to come with an example to understand
this sentence in the standard document.
std::istream_iterator
I request you to kindly give a code sample where a == b is
true but ++a is not equal to ++b.
Impossible. All one can give is an example, where equality is
not guaranteed. That is not the same as non-equality being
guaranteed. Consider, for example:
int main ( void ) {
std::istream_iterator< char > a ( std::cin );
std::istream_iterator< char > b ( a );
assert( a == b );
++ a;
++ b;
assert( a == b ); // not guaranteed
}
The second assert _may_ fail. There is, however, no guarantee
that is does.
IIUC, the ++ b may fail as well. As soon as you've incremented
one of the iterators, just about anything you do with the other
becomes undefined behavior, I think.
Presumably, some of the checking implementations verify this,
and abort the program in the ++b.
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