[boost] Re: [range] patch to fix begin() and end()

29 Jan 2005


      Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
...
"Eric Niebler" <eric@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message 
news:41FAD566.6080001@boost-consulting.com...
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| The following trivial use of Boost.Range fails to compile:
|
|   #include <boost/range/begin.hpp>
|
|   template<class Rng>
|   void foo(Rng const& rng)
|   {
|       boost::begin(rng);
|   }
|
|   int main()
|   {
|       char* sz = "hello";
|       foo( sz );
|   }
Pavol recently the same problem. Our solution was to pass
the char* arguments by value. That should be what the current CVS version
does.
Are you sure? I just sync'ed, and the string versions of begin() and 
end() still take their arguments by reference. The problem remains.


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