"Michael Behrns-Miller" <m@thedigitalmachine.com> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
"Michael Behrns-Miller" <m@thedigitalmachine.com> writes:
2) The new "const required to save" restriction bit me, took a day or two to work through the mailing list and #boost to figure out the problem. Is
Did it prevent a bug, or did it just cost you 2 days of your valuable time?
Were you not tempted to just use "const_cast"? Why not?
I temporarily tried it and got it to work, but that wasn't an acceptable solution to me. I hate casting, immediately makes me reassess the design. Which I did, which led me to the answer. :P
I expected to have ramp-up time with boost. I probably spent a day fiddling with bjam, a half day figuring out to include boost libraries, and a day or two on the const issue. Not full days, just poking around in my spare time. I got everything working under vc71 and gcc 3.3.5 way before getting frustrated, so I was happy.
So did it prevent a bug, or just cost you time? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com