Boost's iterator_adaptor, and a specific adaptor which iterates over
pointees when wrapped around an iterator over pointers.
This is the result of a long discussion on IRC with Duncan Smith, Dave
Blaikie, Richard Smith, and myself. Essentially, I could use some subset
of the iterator facade facilities often used from Boost, and everyone
seemed interested in having the functionality in a reasonably generic
form. I've tried to strike a balance between the pragmatism and the
established Boost design. The primary differences are:
1) Delegating to the standard iterator interface names rather than
special names that then make up a second iterator-like API.
2) Using the name 'pointee_iterator' which seems more clear than
'indirect_iterator'. The whole business of calling the '*p' operation
'pointer indirection' in the standard is ... quite confusing. And
'dereference' is no better of a term for moving from a pointer to
a reference.
Hoping Duncan, and others continue to provide comments on this until
we've got a nice, minimal abstraction.
llvm-svn: 207069
Chandler Carruth