More n3644 changes - forward_list and deque

[Howard Hinnant]

On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl at getdesigned.at> wrote:

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> On 06.08.2013, at 17:40, Howard Hinnant wrote:
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>> This behavior mimics the defined/undefined behavior for pointers described in [expr.eq] and [expr.rel].  j1 and j2 point to the same object, so they are both equality comparable and less-than comparable.  i1, i2 both point to different objects (none at all), and not to the same object as j1 and j2.  [expr.eq] says that all pointers are equality comparable, and this is reflected in the above test.  However [expr.rel] defines operator<() only for pointers pointing into the same object.
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> But comparison between pointers into different objects is unspecified, not undefined. I don't think trapping is a valid outcome.

Do you think debug mode would be more helpful, or less helpful, if the relational operators trapped a less-than comparison between two iterators i and j where i and j belong to two different vectors?

If more helpful, then I think we don't care about bending the rules in debug mode.  It won't be the first rule bent.  For example vector swap is no longer O(1) either.  Otoh, if you've got (or anyone else has) a motivating use case where such a comparison is useful, then I should remove the trap.

Howard