RE: [boost] 'add_const' wanted

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-08 10:19:11

At 08:29 AM 3/8/2001 -0500, scleary_at_[hidden] wrote:

 >> >How about adding the following (surprisingly missing :) type
 >transformation
 >> >templates to our 'type traits' library?
 >>
 >> Because they are not needed, adding a cv-qualifier, is *always* as 
simple
 >> as:
 >>
 >> typedef const T ct;
 >
 >Maybe this should be put in the docs?  I've been asked this before.
 >
 >This is really more suitable to put in a FAQ.  But not the general Boost
 >FAQ.  Should each library have its own FAQ? (maybe with pointers from the
 >Boost FAQ?)

Not each library, surely.  But a FAQ is a convenient form of documentation, 
so adding one for any library which seems to need one should be something 
the library maintainer thinks about.

--Beman