RE: Boost algorithm library (Was: [boost] New upload: algorithm.zip 1)

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-25 14:06:38

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
>
> There is the case, though, of algorithms that need to perform operations
> that are not supported by the iterators, such as erase.
> Is this what you need?
> In that case you have to consider that different containers have different
> semantics, and a consistent trait-based categorization of containers is not
> currently available.You will need that in order to make sure that the
> container feed to the algorithms meets the 'container category'
> requirements, and to adapt the algorithm implementation to the container
> used.
>

I've already done a little work on a traits class for containers, see
boost/pending/container_traits.hpp. I think we should continue to develope
this.

Cheers,
Jeremy

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