On Jan 6, 6:28 pm, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-06, Marcel M ller wrote:
Yes, and according to the guarantees of std::list it will
always point to one past the last element in the container.
That's an interesting assertion. I don't think that the
standard is clear here: does the end iterator point to one past
the last element, always, or does it point to one past the last
element when it was called. I.e.:
std::list<char> l;
l.push_back('a');
l.push_back('b');
l.push_back('c');
std::list<char>::iterator i = l.end();
// i points to one past the element 'c'
l.push_back('d');
// i points to one past the element 'c'?
// or one past the new last element.
I don't think that the standard is really clear here. (I don't
think it's an issue for other containers---in vector, for
example, insertion invalidates any iterators behind the point of
insertion, and thus, any end iterator.)
Interesting subject. You are not entirely right, as the iterators will