Re: [boost] Re: [probing interest]AssocVector (and other parts of Loki)

From: Jason Hise (chaos_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-08 17:56:46

Pavel Vozenilek wrote:

>"Mikhail Glushenkov" wrote:
>
>>>From my experience, the main parts of Loki that people
>>are missing in Boost are:
>>a) Singleton
>>b) policy-based smart_ptr
>>c) AssocVector
>>d) Factories
>>e) (rarely)Visitor
>>Nobody uses multimethods apparently.
>>
>Some of them are being worked on or ready
>to review (a, b, c, maybe e, d is unfinished).
>Good multimethods can be found on
>http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/mmcppfcs.asp.
>  
>
>>Since there are people working on a, b, d and e, I would like to ask
>>the following questions:
>>0) Are you interested in adding AssocVector to Boost?
>>(there seems to be at least _some_ interest[1])
>>
>Yes. You can find current implementation in shmem
>library in Files section
>
Pavel and I have been talking, and agree that the multiton would be best 
implemented in terms of an assoc_vector.  Are there still plans to work 
on this?

-Jason