"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> wrote in message news:cia4al$nfe$1@sea.gmane.org... | | "Doug Gregor" <dgregor@cs.indiana.edu> wrote in message: | | > | > cbegin()/cend() aren't all that useful unless they also work with the | > standard library containers. If it's never going to happen for the | > standard containers, why bother putting it into Boost? Something like | > "as_const(c)" is a totally different story, of course. | | Why can't const_begin be implemented as follows (for standard library | containers): well, it can...otherwise I wouldn't have made the post. It's similar to rbegin(a) in the sense that it only require a.begin() | template<typename Range> | typename range_const_iterator<X>::type | const_begin(Range& rng) | { | return begin(static_cast<const Range&>(rng)); | } this should not be needed, the next is sufficient | template<typename Range> | typename range_const_iterator<X>::type X == Range | const_begin(const Range& rng) | { | return begin(rng); | } | br Thorsten