[boost] Re: [boost.range] late addition, votes needed

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

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