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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-05 20:26:11

At 03:29 PM 2/5/2002, Andrei Alexandrescu 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.

How many "design directions" are there for vectors?  (In the terminology I 
think in the questions becomes something like "How many features are there 
in the feature model?")

There is Capacity, with Dynamic-at-runtime and Fixed-at-compile-time being 
the particulars under discussion.  I've also seen 
Fixed-at-construction-time used historically, but am not sure it brings 
significant enough advantages to be worthwhile if the other two are 
available.

What else?

--Beman