template< class Iter >
class reverse_iterator;
std::reverse_iterator
is an iterator adaptor that reverses the direction of a given iterator, which must be at least a LegacyBidirectionalIterator or model bidirectional_iterator
(since C++20). In other words, when provided with a bidirectional iterator, std::reverse_iterator
produces a new iterator that moves from the end to the beginning of the sequence defined by the underlying bidirectional iterator.
For a reverse iterator r constructed from an iterator i, the relationship &*r == &*(i - 1) is always true (as long as r is dereferenceable); thus a reverse iterator constructed from a one-past-the-end iterator dereferences to the last element in a sequence.
This is the iterator returned by member functions rbegin()
and rend()
of the standard library containers.
Iter
current
the underlying iterator
requires (!std::sized_sentinel_for<Iterator1, Iterator2>)
inline constexpr bool disable_sized_sentinel_for
This partial specialization of std::disable_sized_sentinel_for
prevents specializations of reverse_iterator
from satisfying sized_sentinel_for
if their underlying iterators do not satisfy the concept.
Below is a partial implementation focusing on the way the inner iterator is stored, calling std::prev only when the content is fetched via operator*.
template<class It> class reverse_iterator { protected: It current = It(); public: reverse_iterator() = default; constexpr explicit reverse_iterator(It itr) : current(itr) {} template<class U> requires (!std::is_same_v<U, It> && std::convertible_to<const U&, It>) constexpr explicit reverse_iterator(const U& other) : current(other.base()) {} constexpr decltype(auto) operator*() const { return *std::prev(current); // <== returns the content of prev } constexpr reverse_iterator& operator++() { --current; return *this; } constexpr reverse_iterator operator++(int) { auto tmp = *this; ++(*this); return tmp; } constexpr reverse_iterator& operator--() { ++current; return *this; } constexpr reverse_iterator operator--(int) { auto tmp = *this; --(*this); return tmp; } constexpr It base() const { return current; } // Other member functions, friend functions, and member typedefs are not shown here. };[edit] Notes
std::reverse_iterator
does not work with iterators whose dereference returns a reference to a member of *this (so-called âstashing iteratorsâ). An example of a stashing iterator is MSVC STL's std::filesystem::path::iterator.
#include <cstddef> #include <iostream> #include <iterator> template<typename T, std::size_t SIZE> class Stack { T arr[SIZE]; std::size_t pos = 0; public: T pop() { return arr[--pos]; } Stack& push(const T& t) { arr[pos++] = t; return *this; } // we wish that looping on Stack would be in LIFO order // thus we use std::reverse_iterator as an adaptor to existing iterators // (which are in this case the simple pointers: [arr, arr + pos) auto begin() { return std::reverse_iterator(arr + pos); } auto end() { return std::reverse_iterator(arr); } }; int main() { Stack<int, 8> s; s.push(5).push(15).push(25).push(35); for (int val : s) std::cout << val << ' '; std::cout << '\n'; }
Output:
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