Re: [boost] Dynamic Bitset Formal Review June 8-17

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-14 10:25:56

At 11:42 PM 6/10/2002, Howard Hinnant wrote:

 >
 >Part of the motivation for dyn_bitset (imho) is to give clients of
 >vector<bool> a place to migrate to so that we can deprecate
 >vector<bool>.

When you say "deprecate vector<bool>", don't you really mean "remove the 
vector<bool> specialization"?

In other words, if someone wants the std::vector interface, they will 
continue to use std::vector<bool>.  They just won't get a specialization 
anymore.

Thus it doesn't seem to me that a dynamic bitset template has to support 
vector<bool> syntax for backward compatibility reasons.

--Beman