Re: [boost] Re: A class template for an N-dimensional generic resizable array

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-01 10:41:08

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Jeremy Siek wrote:
> Hi Giovanni,
> 
> Hmm, my intuition is that when dereferencing the Array<int,2>::iterator
> and Array<int,3>::iterator I should get a subarray, not an element. I
> would rather have to explicitly request a "flattened" view to get what you
> have here.

Just something to back up this intuition:

It is natural to expect that a[i] be equivalent to *(a.begin() + i). For
this to be true for the multi-dim array, the iterators for higher
dimensional slices need to dereference to give subarrays instead of the
flattened sections.

Ciao,

Jeremy

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