[boost] Re: Re: [repost][interfaces] would the following work?

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-15 13:44:01

JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z wrote:

>> I'm thinking of using the following syntax for polymorphic
>> container wrappers
>> (stealing from Andrei):
>>
>>    sequence              - sequence of anything
>>    sequence::of<T>   - sequence of T's
>>    iterator                 - any iterator (more or less)
>>    iterator::over<T>  (or of<T>) - any iterator over T's
>
> Is this container wrapper stuff further elaborated somewhere
> I can take a look at?

Not yet. As soon as more information is available, I'll post an announcment
here.

>>> PS: Just for motivation, I' think this idiom could be taken
>> advantage> of in a possible implementation of a dynamic multi-
>> index container.
>>
>> Sounds great!

> The rationale is, in a multi-index container where indices
> are added at run-time, some sort of dynamic polymorphism
> is called for when retrieveing and using the indices, much in
> the vein of the poly container wrappers.

Sound very interesting; I hope the Interfaces library can help.

Jonathan