NAME¶

std::experimental::ranges::ForwardIterator - std::experimental::ranges::ForwardIterator

Synopsis¶

Defined in header <experimental/ranges/iterator>
template < class I >

concept bool ForwardIterator =
InputIterator<I> &&
DerivedFrom<ranges::iterator_category_t<I>, (ranges TS)
ranges::forward_iterator_tag> &&
Incrementable<I> &&

Sentinel<I, I>;

The concept ForwardIterator<I> refines InputIterator by adding equality comparison
and the multi-pass guarantee.

The domain of == for forward iterators is that of iterators over the same underlying
sequence, except that value-initialized iterators of the same type may be compared
with each other and shall compare equal.

Pointers and references obtained from a forward iterator into a range [i, s) must
remain valid while [i, s) continues to denote a range.

Let a and b be two deferenceable iterators of type I. ForwardIterator<I> is
satisfied only if:

* a == b implies ++a == ++b; and
* The expression ([](X x){++x;}(a), *a) is equivalent to *a, i.e., incrementing a
copy of a has no effect on the result of dereferencing a.

This is known as the multi-pass guarantee.

Notes¶

A forward iterator cannot be "stashing": it cannot return a reference to an object
within itself, because such references would be invalidated by the destruction of
the forward iterator.