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Elements of Programming
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Elements of Programming

by Paul McJones, Alexander Stepanov
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 59m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 9

Copying

This chapter introduces writable iterators, whose access functions allow the value of iterators to be modified. We illustrate the use of writable iterators with a family of copy algorithms constructed from simple machines that copy one object and update the input and output iterators. Careful specification of preconditions allows input and output ranges to overlap during copying. When two nonoverlapping ranges of the same size are mutable, a family of swapping algorithms can be used to exchange their contents.

9.1 Writability

This chapter discusses the second kind of access to iterators and other coordinate structures: writability. A type is writable if a unary procedure sink is defined on it; sink can only be used on the left ...

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