[boost] Re: Bag concept

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-01-12 12:19:24

Kevlin Henney writes:
 > >While we're defining container concepts, there ought to be a Bag
 > >concept. A Bag is something that you can put and get items out of. For
 > >instance, Dietmar's heaps and queue's would qualify as Bags.
 > 
 > I feel this would be better termed a Dispenser (or Dispensor, if you wish
 > to follow the *or convention used elsewhere :->). First, this is the more
 > common term for the concept. Second, the term Bag already denotes something
 > else: a set with repeating elements.

I was borrowing the term from Smalltalk, where it is used in the way I
described above.

The problem with "Dispenser" is that the common definition only has
the notion of removing, not also adding.

Ciao,

Jeremy