From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 10:09:30
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