[patch] Simplify signatures of std::list members: merge, splice, insert, erase

C++0x changed the signature of std::list::merge to take an rvalue reference, and then LWG DR 1133 [1] added the lvalue reference signature back as an overload. Our implementation follows that history rather literally, as we changed list::merge to take an rvalue in C++0x mode, then later [2] added

Re: [patch] Simplify signatures of std::list members: merge, splice, insert, erase

On 08/07/15 13:00 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: patch2.txt then does the same thing for splice(), introducing a __const_iterator typedef [3] to make the signatures consistent for different language modes. I think this makes the code more maintainable, as there are fewer #if blocks with subtly