From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T03:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: cursor/stream/c++ iterator class?

On 4/28/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > Yeah, I don't have neither insert nor delete.
> > I didn't needed it when I made the lib. I though about it,
> > but couldn't decide how to approach this problem.
> 
> So that the number of methods doesn't blow up, I decided to
> have my "get" and "put" methods take a flags argument to
> provide many functions:
> 
> forward/reverse
> move/hold
> read(return original value)/ignore(return length)
> scan or replace vs. delete or insert
> 
> Last I counted, I have 12 get functions and 10 put functions
> (all of which can operator on individual elements or a
> string/array of them).  The base class will base all of these
> on 4 primitives (getdelete before/after and insert
> before/after), but most classes will want to override most of
> it.

Watch out not putting too much behavior in a single function :-)

Can you paste some of your code?  I'd like to see it.


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Simon Strandgaard