I want to use a circular list.
Short of implementing my own (like this person did) what are my options?
Specifically what I want to do is iterate over a list of objects. When my iterator reaches the end of the list, it should automatically return to the beginning. (Yes, I realize this could be dangerous.)
See Vladimir's definition of a circular_iterator
: "A circular_iterator will never be equal with CircularList::end(), thus you can always dereference this iterator."
There's no standard circular list.
However, there is a circular buffer in Boost, which might be helpful.
If you don't need anything fancy, you might consider just using a vector
and accessing the elements with an index. You can just mod
your index with the size of the vector to achieve much the same thing as a circular list.