Re: [boost] proxies and const

From: Giovanni Piero Deretta (gpderetta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-13 12:08:42

On 8/13/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> on Mon Aug 13 2007, "Giovanni Piero Deretta" <gpderetta-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> One good way to deal with this is to make the proxy object return a
> >> constant object.  Then it will bind to a T& parameter.
> >>
> >
> > That was what I did at the beginning, but I had to deal with lots of third party
> > functions that didn't constify their arguments
>
> Example?  I don't see why that should make a difference.
>

Sorry, I meant result type, not argument: If a third party function
(wich prototype I can't modify)
returns a non const temporary vector, I have to design my range
algorithms to work
with non const temporaries anyway if I want to interoperate with it.

gpd