Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:34:16PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes spake thusly:
>
| ...
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>> All this is just so super ugly that I cannot fathom why all other
>> compilers than 2.95 has to suffer by this.
>
| Agreed...
|
>> IMHO const_cast is the wrong fix. even a ptr_cmp function would have
>> been better...
>
| No... a colourful ribbon around a turd...
|
>> And are you sure that the correct fix wouldn't be to make both insets
>> const? (that is after all the safer transition)
>
| That sounds better... like the attached? It compiles, but I wonder...
I'll have a look...
>> BOOST_ASSERT(ptr_cmp(cur.inset(), this));
>>
>> template <typename A, typename B>
>> bool ptr_cmp(A const * a, B const * b)
>> {
>> return a == b;
>> }
>
| Ribbon, meet turd.
I can agree, but it would be quite easy to search for when we are
removing this later...
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Lgb
