Re: [boost] Dynamic sized bitset

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-26 13:12:04

At 11:48 AM 11/26/2001, Jeremy Siek wrote:

 >> *  A replacement for vector<bool> which does meet container 
requirements.
 >
 >I don't see how the unified class would address this issue. We still need 
a
 >proxy for the reference type, and therefore it still would not meet the
 >container requirements, which is part of my reason for not including the
 >container functions in dyn_bitset.

I'm assuming that with the resolution of issue 198 it is now possible to 
cache the value (of the correct type) in the iterator, and so the reference 
type is not a proxy, but rather the correct type.

But there may be other problems, such as performance, or as you suggest 
below, the interface may be conceptually wrong.

 >> *  bitset isn't an STL container.
 >
 >Right, and I don't think it should be an STL container. It's an entirely
 >different beast.

That still leaves dyn_bitset and bitset to be unified:-)

--Beman