[boost] Re: Pre-submission: container algorithms

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-07 10:45:32

Dave Abrahams wrote:

> It's a good concept. I agree with Nico that the node_based part is
> distasteful. Why not just call the algorithm erase_and_return_count or
> something? It could give different efficiency guarantees for non-node-based
> containers That would be analogous to the other STL components which have
> different performance depending on iterator category.

There is no way to write this stuff w/o traits, 
w/o user selection of the right function and 
w/o loss of genericity.

No way.

-- 
Valentin Bonnard
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