[boost] Re: Collection concept

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-12 20:02:38

> Hmm, what would be an alternative requirement? If there is no requirement,
> a reference type can be totally unrelated to the value type -- pretty much
> anything except void! So it seems a requirement is required to make the
> spec valid and useful.

In un-standardese:

I would require "whole object manipulation" of references
(assignment/copy-construction/etc....?) to be reflected in the corresponding
values.

-Dave