STL iterator class

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:

| On Nov  8, 1999, Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
| 
| 
| >   struct iterator {
| 
| > I have no idea why it's defined out when namespaces are disabled
| > anyway (does anyone?).
| 
| Probably because `iterator' is too common an name in the global
| namespace to be ``stolen''.  At least it must have be the case for
| whoever came up with this ``work-around''.

Well, actually I'm worried to know *why* we did that...

-- Gaby