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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-16 06:35:57

David Abrahams wrote:
>
> Just because the original designers made the mistake of building in
> rbegin() and rend() accessors, it doesn't mean we should perpetuate
> the same mistake for consistency.

I wouldn't call it a mistake. rbegin/rend isolate the user from the somewhat 
counter-intuitive notion that rbegin() is obtained from end().

I like the proposed cbegin/crbegin member functions. There is a vast 
audience of programmers that value ease of use and consistency above 
orthogonality.