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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-05 16:04:42


dan marsden <danmarsden_at_[hidden]> writes:

> The ref/cref generation is currently in detail, so library private
> implementation, and the is_const switch is repeated as with my
> example. So yes this is a recurring theme, we could provide a
> utility to do the necessary, but that does not seem to be a feature
> specific to fusion (as opposed to any other lib that needs to make
> similar decisions, I believe there is similar code in phoenix for
> example).
>
> Possibly we could make this decision at a higher level, in deref
> proper for example, but I'm not sure the logic is appropriate in all
> cases, such as transform views, were it may be appropriate to return
> non-const refs from a deref of a const container.

IMO you can do better.

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