Re: [boost] [range] Should ranges really propagate constess to the data ?

Subject: Re: [boost] [range] Should ranges really propagate constess to the data ?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-24 10:02:09

On 07/24/2011 03:41 PM, Neil Groves wrote:

> How do you imagine the const / mutable underlying iterator would be chosen?
> If you are proposing that the const-ness of the sub_range template parameter
> is used, I think that this would break to much existing code. The current
> semantics have been in place since at least version 1.33.

I doubt it would break much code if something that was a const_iterator 
previously is now an iterator, since an iterator is usually convertible 
to its const version.