Re: [boost] [Review] Boost Graphs Library (GGCL)

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-08-30 20:45:40

Beman Dawes writes:
 > * 5.2 Property Accessor's return-by-value from get().  That is fine where a 
 > small number of properties is involved.  But for some applications there 
 > will be a considerably larger number.  Of course, a pointer could be 
 > stored, but that gets messy.  How about an additional get_ref() function 
 > (or maybe get_const_ref() in some concepts) which returns a 
 > reference?  That makes using structs ever so much easier, without impacting 
 > the return by value needs of other apps. (I wasn't following the discussion 
 > last winter about property accessors; perhaps this has already been 
 > discussed.)

What you're looking for is the LvaluePropertyAccessor (5.2.4) which
defines an at() method that returns a reference.

Cheers,

Jeremy

P.S. And thanks for all the comments!