RE: [boost] filesystem library const usage

From: Glen Knowles (gknowles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-02 08:24:08

>From "Peter Dimov":
> ++p2.begin() already doesn't work. An iterator is not required to be a
class
> type, and therefore, its rvalues aren't required to support ++. All
built-in
> rvalues, despite being non-qualifiable, are de-facto const.

The idea that an implementation may or may not be de-facto const sounds like

a good argument to make it explicitly const and remove all doubt.

Glen