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From: Valentin Bonnard <Bonnard.V@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Defect Report: member == in container iterators considered harmful
Date: 1999/08/23
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Doug Harrison wrote:

> P.S. I'm still curious as to how defining these functions as non-members
> "goes against the spirit of generic programming".

Using non members operators of course doesn't go against 
the spirit of generic programming.

I have never said that.

(And I often use non member operators myself.)

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Valentin Bonnard
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