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Section: 23.4.3.5 [string.capacity] Status: CD1 Submitter: Chris Newton Opened: 2000-08-27 Last modified: 2016-01-28
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Discussion:
Paraphrased from a message that Chris Newton posted to comp.std.c++:
The standard's description of basic_string<>::operator[] seems to violate const correctness.
The standard (21.3.4/1) says that "If pos < size(), returns data()[pos]." The types don't work. The return value of data() is const charT*, but operator[] has a non-const version whose return type is reference.
Proposed resolution:
In section 21.3.4, paragraph 1, change "data()[pos]" to "*(begin() + pos)".