Chapter 3. Element Reference Categories
In any revolutionary area, most of our current thinking is wrong. | ||
| --David Suzuki | ||
If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs. | ||
| --L. Hunter Lovin | ||
Introduction
When is an element reference not a reference? | |
A1: | When it’s elicited from a collection or an iterator that does not own its element(s). |
That seems like a relatively uncontentious statement. As we will see, however, it has important and far-reaching implications for STL extensions. In this chapter, I will introduce the concept of an element reference category, which is a peer to the familiar concept of iterator category and just as important to STL extensions.
The reason you may not have heard of element reference categorization ...
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