What is the point of const iterators being unusable for elementsI mean that if I have a const collection object then no matter what
removal?
iterators I have I will not be able to erase any element. But if I
have a non-const collection object then why am I not allowed to erase
its elements with a const iterator? After all I could as well take new
non-const begin and advance it until it is equal to the const iterator
and use such iterator for erasure.
A: Bo Persson
You are right, this will be fixed in the next standard, C++0x.
A:
Perfectly right - therefore the Standard Library has fixed this
awful state by accepting LWG issue: lwg-defects
It is the constness of the container which should control whether it can be modified through a
member function such as erase(), not the constness of the iterators.
via comp.lang.c++.moderated.
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