[boost] Re: [Formal review] Collection Traits library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-05 08:22:50

"Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:073d01c43295$1d7354b0$6401a8c0_at_metacomm.com...
| Pavol Droba writes:

| > You are not quite right. Sequence concept is precisely defined in C++ standard.
|
| Yes, and that's unfortunate, because it is essentially a dead concept -- "nobody"
| writes generic code that relies on it -- that has occupied a good name. In fact,
| "Collection" is exactly the word that would perfectly fit to describe what the
| standard choose to refer to as "Sequence". I don't think going the other way
| around would be a good call.

what would you use for sequence then?

| In CS terminology, collections are inherently
| associated with storage;

can give any examples of this CS terminology?

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Thorsten