Re: [boost] hash table library proposal (was Extensions in Boost.Compatibility)

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-13 16:51:03

On Thursday 12 December 2002 20:06, Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 08:17 PM 12/11/2002, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
>  >I forgot to mention in my previous post the following proposed ideas:
>  >
>  >A hash map and hash multimap in which a single value type is specified
>  >along with a traits class that is used to extract the key from the
>  >value type.  The std::pair-specific hash_map and hash_multimap would
>  >then be based upon this generic implementation.
>  >
>  >If there is interest in this library, I will create an implementation.
>
> Are you aware that a hash_map proposal from Matt Austern is almost sure to
> be included in the upcoming C++ Standard Library Technical Report?
>
> See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1399.html
>
> The only reason that proposal wasn't accepted in Santa Cruz was a naming
> controversy and some minor technical quibbles about tuning types being
> specified with more precision than can be delivered.

Still it makes sense to have it already in boost (until it's implemented by 
all compilers)