Re: [boost] Policy-Based Containers (was: Submission: Fixed-Capacity STL Containers Library)

From: Mac Murrett (mmurrett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-05 16:33:06

On 2/5/02 3:29 PM, "Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On a larger scale, I believe this is not the right way to go, so I would
> actually oppose fixed_*. Proliferating all of STL's containers in each
> design direction (in this case, fixed capacity) is simply a losing approach.
> We'd end up where the smart pointers are - lots of them, but still quite
> often you'd have to write your own from scratch.

I completely agree with this assessment.  auto_vector and fixed_vector (and
possibly vector, for that matter) could and should be one policy-based
class.  After nailing this down, we can argue out the specifics of each
policy orthogonally.

Furthermore, we can and should use policies from our future policy-based
smart pointers in our containers.

Mac Murrett.