Re: [boost] Re: [string algo review] overloading on const

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-23 13:36:02

At 12:51 PM 10/23/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >>...
 >> What is the fix? There really needs to be some convenient way to do a
 >> find_first on a const container. Provide a version that takes begin
 >> and end iterators? Or is that already done by one of the algorithms in
 >> detail that you are going to move into boost::algorithm::string?
 >
 >I'm not sure a fix is needed.  The first variant will already match
 >const containers, as long as they're not temporaries.
 >
 >
 >      template <class T>
 >      int f(T& x);
 >
 >      int const x;
 >      int y = f(x); // T deduced as const int.

I guess the original problem was a non-problem.

--Beman