Re: Syntactical issue: should STL list Iterator be overloaded to a pointer to the current element?
In message <1189540994.387082.298650@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Olumide <50295@web.de> writes
Hello,
To begin with, I'm no STL expert. I've only just begun to use and
appreciate the power of STL.
Okay, so I have a list:
list<int> myLuckyNumbers;
list<int>::iterator intList_Iterator = myLuckyNumbers->begin();
while( intList_Iterator != myLuckyNumbers->end() )
{
int *integerPointer = &(*intList_Iterator);
intList_Iterator++;
}
In order to get a pointer to each element of the list,
Nobody in this thread seems to have asked what to me is the obvious
question: why do you _want_ a pointer to each element? If all you need
is something that "points at" the element, the iterator is already a
model of the concept of pointer, so (as Bo Persson points out) for most
purposes it's sufficient to use the iterator directly.
I need to use
the unintuitive expression, &(*intList_Iterator). My worry is that
because the dereference (*) and "address of" (&) operators, cancel
each other, shouldn't intList_Iterator be interpreted as a pointer to
a int, if assigned to an int?
Also, is there a better way getting the pointer to the current in in
the list?
Thanks,
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