[boost] Re: New proposal for boost: carray

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-02 09:54:12

> As I got no feedback so far:
> Did anybody look at it and is anybody interested?

I didn't look, but not because it isn't important. I have just always
assumed that something like this would arrive one day!

> However, I got some indirect feedback due to feeback to
> my book.
>  It seems, that also Matt mentioned such a class in his book.
>  This class is called "block".
>  He implementes the class as POD (making the internal array public),
>  so that the following is
>  possible:
>   carray<int,6> a = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }

can you still do that initialization with
carray<non_POD_type, 6> a = { non_POD_type(), non_POD_type() }?

If not, does it matter that you can't?

> This seems to be an important improvement.
> In addition, he introduces op==, op<, swap(), and reverse iterators.
>
> So, I will present a new version
> (in case, anybody is interested).
>
> However, one question remains:
> - Which name should we take?
>     c_array, carray, block?
>    Is one of these name used in a library alreay?

I prefer 'raw_array'. It's too hard to guess what the 'c' stands for and
'block' is downright un-descriptive.

-Dave