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

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 11:25:32

On Sep 15, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

> 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?

Against. If the C++ committee likes them, we can add them into a later 
revision of Boost.

        Doug