[Effective-cpp] Item 1: Uses and Abuses of vector

[Mark Radford]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, at 14:27:02, Balog Pal <pasa at lib.hu> writes
>I' a big fan of const but for this situation I recall Scott Meyers had
>reservations on using const_iterator in ESTL.

He just pointed out that, because of a design fault in the STL, you 
sometimes can't use const_iterator when you ought to be able to. For 
example, container::erase takes (non-const) iterators as arguments, when 
it could take const_iterators because the container is being modified, 
not its elements.

- Mark.

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