Using iterators in C++20
Iterators were the first to fully use concepts after they were introduced. Iterators and their categories are now considered legacy because, starting from C++20, we use iterator concepts such as readable
(which specifies that the type is readable
by applying the *
operator) and writable
(which specifies that a value can be written to an object referenced by the iterator). Let’s look at how incrementable
is defined in the <iterator>
header, as promised:
template <typename T>concept incrementable = std::regular<T> && std::weakly_incrementable<T> && requires (T t) { {t++} -> std::same_as<T>; };
Therefore, the incrementable
concept requires the type to be std::regular
. This means it should be constructible by default and have a copy constructor and operator==()
. Besides that, the incrementable
concept requires the type to be weakly_incrementable
, which means the type supports pre- and post-increment...