[Dune] [#827] rbegin of FieldVector and ISTL classes has surprising semantics

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User who did this - Christian Engwer (christi) 

Attached to Project - Dune
Summary - rbegin of FieldVector and ISTL classes has surprising semantics
Task Type - Bug Report
Category - Dune Core Modules
Status - New
Assigned To - 
Operating System - Unspecified / All
Severity - Low
Priority - Normal
Reported Version - 2.0
Due in Version - Undecided
Due Date - Undecided
Details - The methods rbegin() and rend() of FieldVector, DenseVector, DynamicVector and the classes in ISTL return an Iterator. The usual behaviour of this method would be to return a reverse_iterator. The main difference is, that the iterator has to be decremented using '--', while the reverse_iterator is decremented using '++'.

This behaviour may come as a big surprise to new users. I do understand, the current behaviour is needed in ISTL, thus I do not want to suggest  to remove this feature, but I suggest to rename the methods to avoid additional confusion. Renaming the methods should be fairly simple.

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