Re: [boost] [intrusive] New version uploaded. Review Request.

From: james.jones_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-12-18 10:47:44

From: Ion Gazta?aga <igaztanaga_at_[hidden]>
> To avoid wasting a bit of the internal 
> size integer, we could define size() as "this->size_ - 1", so 
> this->size_ == 0 could represent unknown size and this->size_== 1 an 
> empty list, this->size_ == 2 a list with just 1 element and so on.

Clever, but such a design would fail code review if I were the project manager. This is way too likely to cause maintenance problems at some future time.

Better to save the bit by defining size_ == MAXINT as unknown size, and all other values as the actual size.

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