[boost] [boost.range] late addition, votes needed

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 10:09:30

Dear All,

In the pre-redmond mailing Walter Brown discusses the possibility of adding
these members to standard container classes:

const_iterator cbegin();
const_iterator cend();
const_reverse_iterator crbegin();
const_reverse_iterator crbegin();

The motiviation is that we want to be able to say explicitly "give me a const
iterator" without doing ugly casts.
IMO a sound idea.

Given the framework in boost.range these would be absolutely *trivial* to add.

1st vote: for or against adding these?

2nd vote: which naming scheme to use:

 a: cbegin(), cr_begin()

 b: const_begin(); const_rbegin();

The motivation for chosing the latter could be that "cr" contracttions become
harder to read.

Let me know what ya think.

best regards

Thorsten