Re: [boost] Submission: Fixed-Capacity STL Containers Library

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-05 18:00:19

On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 11:06  PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

>> The std::stack and std::queue adaptors should work well of course.
>> What I have done is just simply adding a static constant,
>> "static_max_size", to there interface.  Here is the complete
>> implementation of my fixed_capacity_stack.
>>
>> template<class T, std::size_t N,
>>          template<class, std::size_t> class C = fixed_capacity_vector>
>> class fixed_capacity_stack : public std::stack<T, C<T, N> >
>> {
>> public:
>>   static const std::size_t static_max_size = C<T, N>::static_max_size;
>>
>> }; // fixed_capacity_stack
>
> That's the wrong way of doing it. You don't inherit from a class just 
> to add
> data members and/or functions. (It's true it was a popular idiom in 
> early
> C++.)
>
> Andrei

How would you propose to do it?

Matthias