[boost] Re: Re: Re: Collection Concept

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-19 04:16:51

"Pavol Droba" <droba_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20031119063920.GR25988_at_lenin.felcer.sk...

> Actualy it is already a part of main Boost repository
(<boost>/libs/utility/Collection.html).
> I wonder, why it is not under libs/concept_check, because that's the place
where it belongs.

Aha :-)

> Another open issue is, how to express the collection concept requirements
in the means of
> container(collection)_traits.
> Maybe some kind of "IndirectCollection" could be specified, where all
requirements are
> specified in the means of traits, instead of member functions/typdefs.

yeah, or maybe just a freestanding implementation of the XXConcept, so we
could simply say
"collection traits is a freestanding implementation of the Collection
concept which gives uniform access to the
Collection concept for many unrelated types."

-Thorsten