Re: [Boost-users] Property map design

On Mar 5, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Daniel Mitchell wrote:

My initial statement was that the design leads to a situation that is *in some respects* at odds with convention. When property maps are viewed, not as first class containers of their data, but as having more-or-less the same status as container iterators, the situation clarifies. I suppose that must have been the author's intent.

I believe that was the intent. Property maps have shallow copying semantics (like pointers and iterators), which often (but not always <g>) implies that the constness of the data is not based on constness of the type referencing the data. Doug