On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:44:19 -0400, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
It was discussed in the past IIRC and Philippe's rationale basically captures the consensus here.
Very well, it seems that I am outnumbered. Non-const return values from binary operators are not a bug, but a feature. However, it remains an undocumented feature. It would be easier to contribute to boost if the programming guidelines on the homepage corresponded to the actual programming guidelines that have been decided. At the moment the homepage has an explicit reference to a book ("Effective C++", second edition) that recommends the opposite policy, the real guidelines are not mentioned. I have reintroduced the non-const return values for the operators, the new version has been uploaded to the sandbox vault. -- Søren