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Visitor Concepts
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The visitor concepts plays the same role in BGL as <a
href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/functors.html">functors</a>
play in the STL. Functors provide a mechanism for extending an
algorithm; for customizing what is done at each step of the algorithm.
Visitors allow the user to insert their own operations at various
steps within a graph algorithm. Unlike the STL algorithms, graph
algorithms typically have multiple event points where one may want to
insert a call-back via a functor. Therefore visitors do not have a
single <tt>operator()</tt> method like a functor, but instead have
several methods that correspond to the various event points. Each
algorithm has a different set of event points, which are described by
the following visitor concepts:

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  <li> <a href="./BFSVisitor.html">BFS Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./DFSVisitor.html">DFS Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./DijkstraVisitor.html">Dijkstra Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./BellmanFordVisitor.html">Bellman Ford Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./AStarVisitor.html">A* Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./EventVisitor.html">Event Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./PlanarFaceVisitor.html">Planar Face Visitor</a>
  <li> <a href="./TSPTourVisitor.html">TSP Tour Visitor</a>
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<A HREF="http://www.boost.org/people/jeremy_siek.htm">Jeremy Siek</A>,
Indiana University (<A
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<A HREF="http://www.boost.org/people/liequan_lee.htm">Lie-Quan Lee</A>, Indiana University (<A HREF="mailto:llee@cs.indiana.edu">llee@cs.indiana.edu</A>)<br>
<A HREF="http://www.osl.iu.edu/~lums">Andrew Lumsdaine</A>,
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