Re: [boost] Another class to put in Boost?

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-08 13:19:32

John E. Potter wrote on 1/8/2001 12:25 PM
>Sorry for using "the".  Everyone knows that THE slist is SGI slist and
>it is used in THE (sgi) hash containers.  Better work on your
>marketing. :)

No Kidding! :-)

>Seriously, I will try to watch myself on that.  Does Metrowerks have
>std::hash_set?

Yup, the full compliment:  slist, hash_set, hash_multiset, hash_map, and 
hash_multimap.  They are largely, but not 100% compatible with the SGI 
versions.  One big difference is that they live in namespace Metrowerks 
instead of namespace std (Pro 6 and later).  This is in anticipation that 
there will eventually be std::versions of these containers, and that the 
Metrowerks::versions won't be exactly the same as the std::versions.  So 
we will support both versions for a while to give people time to adjust.  
There are other variations and additions to the SGI interface.

Darin Adler wrote on 1/8/2001 1:10 PM
>Howard cautioned me to not quote the SGI source code in
>email messages, for example.

Actually I thought that was about Metrowerks source code quotes in 
newsgroup postings.  No matter, we appreciate the careful handling and 
respect that is shown for Metrowerks property.

-Howard