Thread: inheriting iterators

I never knew that was the behavior of reverse iterators, very interesting.

I see what you're saying about checking for end() in the constructor because it's not valid so I made that change like this:

Code:

circular_list_iterator( std::list<T>& container, typename std::list<T>::iterator iter )
: container( &container ), iter( iter ){
        		
    if( iter == container.end() ){ iter = container.begin(); }
};

Now if I get what you're saying, this should be how I refer to the last element of the list:

Code:

/* Either:
*/
circular_list_iterator<int> it( m_list, m_list.end() );
--it;

/* Or:
*/
circular_list_iterator<int> it( m_list, m_list.begin() );
--it;

Both now give me the same result.

Thank You Daved and CornedBee.