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Re: shadowed rel_ops operators
- To: richarda at ixla dot com dot au
- Subject: Re: shadowed rel_ops operators
- From: amep at softhome dot net
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:35:29 -0600
- Cc: libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20010119130601.A7419@kungfu.ixla.com.au>
From: Richard Andrews <richarda@ixla.com.au>
Subject: shadowed rel_ops operators
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:06:01 +1100
> Looking at stl_iterator.h (near end of file)
>
> There are templated operators defined here which exactly shadow the
> operators defined in std::rel_ops.
>
> These iterator specific operators cause havoc when using <iterator> and
> std::rel_ops in the same compilation unit.
>
> There are only two operators in stl_iterator.h which do anything unique to
> iterators they are operator==() and operator<(), the fundamental operators.
>
> I'd like to have the rest of the operators removed and replaced with (eg.)
>
> using std::rel_ops::operator!=;
>
I second that. I had some major problems with this. When the problems
are buried deep inside a library's headers it can be very hard to fix
without making the change Richard did. Which for some reason I didn't
think of doing.
I'm not a C++ wiz or anything. But, I think this is a good change to
make.
-Arthur
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