Re: [boost] Re: set class

From: Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-30 15:58:34

----- Original Message -----
From: "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:38 PM
Subject: [boost] Re: set class

> "Fernando Cacciola" <fcacciola_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:akoh24$npk$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> >
> > "Greg Colvin" <Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> > news:5.1.1.6.2.20020830130145.02a48df0_at_rgmgitmail.oraclecorp.com...
> > > I vote for "bag".
> > >
> > Gee! You've just took it out of my mouth! :-)
>
> You had a bag in your mouth?  How odd. ;)

:-)

>Seriously, though, when I
> see 'bag', I read 'heterogenous container', not 'set'.  Anyone else have
> that problem?
>
I also think of it as an heterogeneous container, but I see the
heterogeneity in the values and not in the types.
In fact, I even think that in this particular structure -or the structure
I'm thinking of- the type of the elements is not important -or at least
conceptually not important-. That's why they can be coded more or less
freely.
In this view, I see it as a container of different *things*, were these
things are essentially attributed with value but not with type (IOWs, their
type required by the language rules are an implementation detail from the
user POV, even if the user is required to specify it because the language
says so)

Fernando Cacciola
Sierra s.r.l.
fcacciola_at_[hidden]
www.gosierra.com