Re: [boost] Tuple indexing - no more votes!

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-29 02:00:42

From: <jaakko.jarvi_at_[hidden]>
> Thanks for the comments!
> 
> The solution maximizing overall satisfaction seems to be:
> 
> 1. Tuple elements should be indexed starting from 0.

Yes!

> 2. There should be a set of 'natural language' constants for accessing
> them 1-based.

And yes!

> e.g.: get<0>(a) == get<_1st>(a) 
> 
> 3. This choice and its rationale should be clearly expressed in the
> documentation.
> 
> We'll change to this scheme.

Thanks.  But could we lose the leading underscores?

> One additional clarification (which has already been said a couple of
> times):
> 
> Placeholders in bind/lambda expressions are a separate issue,
> they can be named like arg1, arg2, arg3, ...
> or free1, free2, ... or _1st, _2nd, ... or something else
> Here 1-based naming is more consistent with the established
> conventions (cf. bind1st).
> 
> Jaakko
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