Re: [boost] Re: A class template for an N-dimensional generic resizable array

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-04 13:56:10

Perhaps this is a situation where generative programming comes in handy.
We could provide both compile-time and run-time options for the number of
dimensions.

One particularly important place where run-time specified dims
is needed is for supporting a scripting interface.

Cheers,
Jeremy

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 gibav_at_[hidden] wrote:
> I was not alluding to this in my previous mail. The main trade off 
> that comes to mind is type safety. If at compile time you don't know 
> the number of dimensions, how can the compiler know if a set of 
> operator [] should yield a reference to an individual element or to 
> ann intermediate ArrayRef? For this reason alone, I would not like 
> that solution. Besides, I think that changing number of dimensions 
> would create unintuitive behaviour in the Array, perhaps with the 
> exception of the case where one of them is monodimensional.

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