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

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-05 05:17:59

In message <90idvi+rvtv_at_[hidden]>, Gavin Collings
<gcollings_at_[hidden]> writes
>Fair enough.  Presenting a clean container interface is important, 
>but there's more to a container interface than begin() and end().  
>And I don't feel particularly comfortable cluttering the class 
>interface with max_size_all(), size_all(), iterator_type_all etc.

Well, there is a certain consistency to the naming ;-)

However, whichever view was adopted as the default, the same issue would
apply to the other.

>All of those alls seem to hint at a commonality; better it would be 
>to support the all element interface through a view: -
>
>   class flattened_array
>   {
>   public:
>
>      flattened_array( array * );
>
>      // insert clean container interface here.
>
>   private:
>
>      array * array_;
>   };
>
>   class array
>   {
>      // ...
>
>      flattened_array flat() { return flattened_array( this ); }
>   };

This proxied view is a good, clean alternative to an adapted iterator.

Kevlin
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