On 2/14/23 17:04, Edward Catmur via Std-Proposals wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 15:59, Chris Ryan <chrisr98008_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:chrisr98008_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> The owner object's operator[] (with bounds checking) returns the
> reference to the indexed object.
> The owner object should not return a raw pointer to the head and
> allow somebody else to index off of it.
>
>
> You appear to be talking about a fairly extensive change to the
> Standard. Note that various Library components added data() member
> functions relatively recently; are you saying that was a mistake?
>
> And are you saying that any component that has API returning a raw
> pointer is to be considered unsafe? There wouldn't be much left of the
> Library if all such components were barred from use.

To interject to the conversation, C++ doesn't make the difference
between a pointer and an iterator. A pointer "owns" a memory block but
an iterator doesn't.

I already abstracted this in:
https://github.com/philippeb8/root_ptr/blob/master/include/boost/smart_ptr/root_ptr.hpp

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