From 3103981485472894374 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,1b54f9c683bc95c5,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid7894ca11fe,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.129.169 with SMTP id nx9mr10932806pbb.8.1326818140709; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:35:40 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: lh20ni192876pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!amsnews11.chello.com!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: vlad.moscow@mail.ru Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Absence of global functions std::cbegin() and std::cend() Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:33:59 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Sender: std-cpp-request@vandevoorde.com Approved: stephen.clamage@oracle.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: UFsJMYbzDJw0+w8jQC5xabO2CO3kObBBDn/ePzxThFU= X-Trace: news.albasani.net rjmq4DRWKQmf7MphwE8JrSF47uLWig4bP8yAGrwndKA0Ni4tcDKiZrgnGwlqDcpxNkRdnJsc8AVjx29mlS44YQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:35:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v2.05 X-Submission-Address: std-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pz6fGov5uyOuFZxLmV88y52kYHY= X-Original-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:10:22 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Along with global functions std::begin() and std::end() there should be their visavis in the C++ Standard: global functions std::cbegin() and std::cend() which return const_iterator for containers or pointers to constant arrays. For example #include #include #include int main() { const int a[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }; std::vector v( std::cbegin( a ), std::cend( a ) ); std::copy( std::cbegin( a ), std::cend( a ), std::ostream_iterator( std::cout, " " ) ); std::copy( std::cbegin( v ), std::cend( v ), std::ostream_iterator( std::cout, " " ) ); } -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try posting with your ] [ newsreader. If that fails, use mailto:std-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]