2826. string_view iterators use old wording

Section: 27.3.3.4 [string.view.iterators] Status: C++17 Submitter: Alisdair Meredith Opened: 2016-11-17 Last modified: 2017-07-30

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Discussion:

The wording for basic_string_view was written before the definition of a contiguous iterator was added to C++17 to avoid repeating redundant wording.

Suggested modification of 27.3.3.4 [string.view.iterators] p1 (stealing words from valarray begin/end):

-1- A constant random-access iterator type such that, for a const_iterator it, if &*(it + N) is valid, then &*(it + N) == (&*it) + NA type that meets the requirements of a constant random access iterator (24.2.7) and of a contiguous iterator (24.2.1) whose value_type is the template parameter charT.

[2017-01-27 Telecon]

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Proposed resolution:

This wording is relative to N4606.

1. Modify 27.3.3.4 [string.view.iterators] as indicated:

   using const_iterator = implementation-defined;
   

   -1- A constant random-access iterator type such that, for a const_iterator it, if &*(it + N) is valid, then &*(it + N) == (&*it) + Ntype that meets the requirements of a constant random access iterator (24.3.5.7 [random.access.iterators]) and of a contiguous iterator (24.3.1 [iterator.requirements.general]) whose value_type is the template parameter charT.

   -2- For a basic_string_view str, any operation that invalidates a pointer in the range [str.data(), str.data() + str.size()) invalidates pointers, iterators, and references returned from str's methods.

   -3- All requirements on container iterators (23.2 [container.requirements]) apply to basic_string_view::const_iterator as well.