Re: (const) iterator question

From:
AlbertoBarbati@libero.it (Alberto Ganesh Barbati)
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:46:54 GMT
Message-ID:
<itULh.29564$zG1.323223@twister2.libero.it>
2b|!2b==? ha scritto:

If an iterator is a pointer, then why can't I assign an 'int' (NULL) to it?


First of all, you can assign NULL to a pointer, but you can't assign
int(NULL) to a pointer. Second, you should never assume that an iterator
is actually a pointer, in fact most of the times iterators are not
pointers even when you expect them to be so (especially in debug builds).

This works fine in debug, but fails to compile with Release
configuration ..:


Are you sure? I was expecting it to be the other way round...

bool myParser::spellCheck(TokenList tokenList) {
    TokenIterator tokenIterator = tokenList.begin();
    TokenIterator lastSignificantToken = NULL; // <- complier barfs here


Just use

   TokenIterator lastSignificantToken = TokenIterator();

HTH,

Ganesh

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