C++ named requirements: LegacyIterator

 

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The LegacyIterator requirements describe types that can be used to identify and traverse the elements of a container.

LegacyIterator is the base set of requirements used by other iterator types: LegacyInputIterator, LegacyOutputIterator, LegacyForwardIterator, LegacyBidirectionalIterator, and LegacyRandomAccessIterator. Iterators can be thought of as an abstraction of pointers.

All the categories of iterators require only those functions that are realizable for a given category in constant time (amortized). Therefore, requirement tables and concept definitions(since C++20)for the iterators do not specify complexity.

Requirements

The type It satisfies LegacyIterator if

• The type It satisfies CopyConstructible, and
• The type It satisfies CopyAssignable, and
• The type It satisfies Destructible, and
• The type It satisfies Swappable, and
• std::iterator_traits<It> has member typedefs value_type(until C++20), difference_type, reference, pointer, and iterator_category, and
• Given r, an lvalue of type It, the following expressions must be valid and have their specified effects:

Expression	Return Type	Precondition
*r	unspecified	r is dereferenceable
++r	It&	r is incrementable (the behavior of the expression ++r is defined)

Concept For the definition of std::iterator_traits, the following exposition-only concept is defined. template<class I> concept __LegacyIterator =     requires(I i)     {         {   *i } -> __Referenceable;         {  ++i } -> std::same_as<I&>;         { *i++ } -> __Referenceable;     } && std::copyable<I>; where the exposition-only concept __Referenceable<T> is satisfied if and only if T& is a valid type (in particular, T must not be void).

(since C++20)

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

DR	Applied to	Behavior as published	Correct behavior
LWG 2437	C++98	*r is required to be reference	not required for output iterators
LWG 3420	C++20	the exposition-only concept checks copyable first	copyable is checked only if the requires-expression yields true

See also

input_or_output_iterator (C++20)	specifies that objects of a type can be incremented and dereferenced (concept)
Iterator library	provides definitions for iterators, iterator traits, adaptors, and utility functions