[boost] Re: Container Adaptors

From: Bohdan (warever_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-17 18:11:26

"David A. Greene" <greened_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:3DAEFCBB.4050003_at_eecs.umich.edu...
> Hi gang,
>
> I've often found the need to construct container adaptors to provide
> things such as a fixed-size vector.  After once again writing
> some of these things, I'm wondering whether it might be worth
> designing a container adaptor library similar to the iterator
> adaptor library.  I can see a container traits library coming
> out of this as well.

May be a bit OT, but what about View Templeate Library ? :
http://www.zib.de/weiser/vtl/toc.html

I'm just curious, why it is so unpopular ?
Is it too old ? Is it surplus, from boosters point of view ?
I never heard it was mentioned in this ML.

> Is there something currently in Boost that will allow me to do
> these sorts of things?  If not, is this something the Boost
> community would be interested in?

IMHO, container adaptors can be useful at least in interface of library
having classes with stl::container behavior.

regards,
bohdan