From: Stefan Slapeta (stefan_nospam__at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-15 16:29:46
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>
> 1st vote: for or against adding these?
>
For.
> 2nd vote: which naming scheme to use:
>
> a: cbegin(), cr_begin()
>
> b: const_begin(); const_rbegin();
>
b! cr_begin is wrong (where does the underscore come from?), it should
have to be crbegin instead, which is ugly.
> I wonder whether it's better to say
>
> cbegin(x)
>
> or
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> begin(as_const(x))
>
> The latter is certainly more general.
>
It's more general but it has a big usability issue: it's hard for me to
find a rationale that I can get a reverse_iterator by calling "rbegin"
but have to apply something to the container to get a const_iterator.
Whatever the best solution is, there should be the same concept for
const and reverse for the user!
Stefan