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[Cody Rose <>]

On 2/5/2013 1:34 PM, RossH wrote:
> Cody M Rose wrote
> > Depending on what you're iterating over it sounds like you could kludge
> > this by creating a sequence filled with pointers to your actual
> > iterators. It's certainly not elegant, though.
> >
> > Cody
> >
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> Yea, the nicest one-off solution is to use a boost::iterator_adaptor (I
> actually posted the code for this exact
> solution on my blog:
> http://www.rosshemsley.co.uk/2012/08/boost-iterator_adaptors-and-modifying-the-cgal-finite_vertices_iterator/).
>
> But here I am writing the functions to use as a library so I don't want the
> user to see the inconsistency.
Hm. What exactly are your library boundaries? To put it in another way, 
where are you willing to put the complexity of the static dispatch - in 
the functor, the higher-order function, or the calling code?