[boost] Re: container traits (was: Pre-submission: container algorithms)

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-07 07:46:17

Beman Dawes wrote:

> [ How to force people to adopt container 
>  traits - sniped ]

We don't need to force anyone if:

- the trait values all have an unknown 
  special value

- the algorithms can deal with that 
  unknown value

Also note that third parties can provide 
the traits for containers simply by reading 
the documentation.

At any rate it doesn't require any changes 
to the containers classes !

See 
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/bonnard/ContAlgo/ContTraits.hpp
for an _example_ (I will probably rewrite it).

-- 
Valentin Bonnard
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