Re: [boost] Status of Hash Collections?

From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-31 18:06:31

Jeff Garland wrote:
> Yesterday I got to see the first part of Scott Meyer's overview of TR1 and 
> Boost.  Of course, he pointed out that we don't yet have the hash collections 
> in Boost.  Looking over what's in the vault, it looks like it's coming along 
> well...seems like it's pretty much ready for review?  Since I see that I asked 
> this in July does this count as nagging ;-)
>   
Sorry about the slow reply, I haven't been checking my email often recently.

I just uploaded a new version, which fixes a bug and removes some 
unnecessary junk from the implementation.

Looking at my to do list, it's mainly just to add more tests and 
examples, which probably don't strictly need to be done before a review. 
There are also a few minor issues with the standard to be sorted out.

There is one problem that might be more serious. I'm not sure if 
Allocator::address or the allocator comparison operators are allowed to 
throw an exception. If they can, the implementation doesn't meet the 
exception requirements. Actually, if the allocator comparison operators 
can throw then it might not be possible to meet the swap exception 
requirements for most of the standard containers. So maybe I'm missing 
something. I haven't looked into this in much detail yet.

Daniel