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

Peter Dimov wrote:

[...] There is a vast audience of programmers that value ease of use and consistency above orthogonality.

I second that! Beside that, I've no problem if both member and free functions are provided; I also wouldn't bother if one could write both x.const_rbegin _and_ rbegin(as_const(x)). There are good reasons for both. Stefan