Re: [boost] Re: Formal Review: Assignment Library

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-05 13:30:08

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

>"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>news:c4i8sj$947$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
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>>Hi Alexander,
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>>"Alexander Nasonov" <alnsn-mycop_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>>news:c4hmul$uuc$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
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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.
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>>What would you prefer then?
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>I also believe that providing template method for global operator += is not
>good idea.
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>What you could do is to provide an operator += specialization for stl
>containers and support initialization in a form:
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>init( C ) += ...
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>as a generic solution.
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I definitely second that.

Of course, there's an insert(c) in the library, but that works like
insert(cont) (a)(b)(c);

I would like:
insert(count) += a,b,c;

Seems much more straightforward, and doesn't overload operator += for a 
containers, which I think could turn out to be dangerous.

Best,
John