Re: [boost] Dynamic sized bitset

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-25 21:28:45

At 03:02 PM 11/24/2001, Jeremy Siek wrote:

 >I just uploaded an implementation of a dynamic sized version of
 >std::bitset to the Files (dyn_bitset.tar.gz). Also included is a complete
 >test suite and documentation. Chuck Allison provided the initial
 >implementation, and I boostified the code, and added docs and test.
 >
 >This classes is needed for several things in the graph library, but it
 >should also be useful in a bunch of other places.
 >
 >If people like what they see I'd like to move this to formal review 
before
 >too long. It's a pretty simple class, and very close to the std::bitset, 
so
 >there shouldn't be much controversy :)

Just out of curiosity, did you and Chuck consider a design which supplied 
bitset with a policy parameter or some other way of determining whether 
allocation was static or dynamic?

bitset and dyn_bitset seem conceptually so similar it makes me wonder if 
there is really a need for two different classes.

In looking at the docs, I noticed (broken) "See also" links at the 
bottom.  I'm looking forward to learning more about bit_vector:-)

--Beman