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

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 13:18:34

Go for the const_begin versions - crbegin is dreadful.

Write-once - read many...

Paul
 

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Thorsten Ottosen
| Sent: 15 September 2004 16:10
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: [boost] [boost.range] late addition, votes needed
| 
| 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