#9278 closed patch (wontfix)
Reverse Iterator
| Reported by: | SF/nicogarnier | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | --Other-- |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
It was not the most difficult development I ever did but it was in the todo list... Reverse iterators are implemented.
Ticket imported from: #3158890. Ticket imported from: patches/1383.
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Change History (6)
by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | ReverseIterator.patch added |
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comment:1 by , 14 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
This patch seems incomplete, too. It adds a ReverseIterator class, but no way to obtain an instance of that. Moreover, there is no ConstReverseIterator.
I am not quite sure why you found this patch so difficult (or maybe that was irony?) -- it's just a matter of switching _next and _prev in some places, isn't it? :) In fact, this is why in the standard C++ library (or at least in the GNU implementation thereof), there is a generic reverse_iterator template, which can be wrapped around any concrete (const_)iterator type, to yield a reverse iterator. It simply implement a ++ method which invokes the -- method of the wrapped iterator, etc. etc.. I think that *if* we add reverse iterators, we should follow that way, as it reduces code duplication, and gives us reverse iterators for all container types at once (well, at least all with bidirectional iterators; so the hashmap is not currently covered by this).
I am rejecting this patch for now, as it does not provide any actual functionality and is not the way to go. Should you still be interested on working on proper reverse iterator support, though, I'd be happy to coach you on the subject.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
| Status: | new → pending |
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comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → wontfix |
| Status: | pending → closed |
comment:5 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → --Other-- |
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I hope that this isn't a case of the TODO being out of date, and you doing redundant work, but doesn't the current iterator framework work fine in reverse if we use reverse_begin() and simply compare against end() in a loop?