Re: [boost] 1.15.0 Posted on web site

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-06-20 13:48:20

David Abrahams writes:
 > And one more piece of bad news:
 > 
 > 1. the iterator_helpers are still broken because with a non-const value type
 > and a const pointer type you get a non-const iterator, because:
 > 2. dereferenceable<> is arguably still broken because it takes a value_type
 > parameter instead of a pointer (type) parameter
 > 
 > Fixing problem 2 involves breaking backward-compatibility. I don't think
 > there's a clever fix for this problem. I'm inclined to fearlessly make the
 > fix, but I need guidance from the group on what to do about it.

I'd suggest going ahead with the fix. I use dereferenceable<> a lot,
but it was easy to update all the uses.

Cheers,

Jeremy