[boost] Re: Formal Review: Assignment Library

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-01 20:25:46

"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> Hi Alexander,
>
> "Alexander Nasonov" <alnsn-mycop_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> > I like the idea. However, I argue with some design decisions.
> > The biggest problem is that it's too easy to add operator+= to any
> > container-like class.
>
> What would you prefer then?

I also believe that providing template method for global operator += is not
good idea.

What you could do is to provide an operator += specialization for stl
containers and support initialization in a form:

init( C ) += ...

as a generic solution.

Gennadiy.