[boost] Re: Boost Array Initialization Technique

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 14:37:10

christopher diggins wrote:
> The fact that the Boost array class does not support constructors in
> favour of the limited and somewhat obscure aggregate initialization
> syntax has me concerned. IMO it would be much more flexible and
> powerful to support overloading of the comma operator. The following
> works on Visual C++

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> This is much more flexible and it allows us to have constructors in
> boost::array thus making it a full reversible container.

Are you saying you want boost::array to satisfy the requirements in Table 65?

I think the postconditions for the expressions "X u" and "X()" will be hard to
achieve. ;-)

Jonathan