[boost] Re: Formal Review: Assignment Library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-01 21:37:42

"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> > "Alexander Nasonov" <alnsn-mycop_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> > news:c4hmul$uuc$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> > > 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.

its not global. And you have to include the specific assign/stl.hpp header.

> 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.

If you looked at the lib, you would find that it is already there; it's
called insert().

br

Thorsten