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

[James Dennett]

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 03:07 AM, Mark Radford wrote:

> 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.
>
>
There are thoughts out there about fixing this in C++0x.  I'd like to 
see that happen.

-- James