Re: [boost] [range] [general] making member functionsSFINAE-friendly

Subject: Re: [boost] [range] [general] making member functionsSFINAE-friendly
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-21 05:20:57

On 20-02-2013 12:38, Vadim Stadnik wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. <
> jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Vadim Stadnik <vadimstdk_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>
> ...
>
>>
>> I think you're overgeneralizing and/or exaggerating. IIRC, the value of
>> augmented data structures is certainly recognized (although I'm not sure of
>> what you mean by "value...for STL").
>
>
> There is some interest and there are discussions, but the fact is that
> there are still no containers based on augmented data structures neither in
> STL nor in Boost libraries. I do not understand this situation, since
> augmenting of data structures is a relatively simple textbook method. This
> is also interesting in the light of the other fact that the functional
> language Haskell provides the augmented data structure Finger Tree. One of
> the explanations I have found is the standardization of computational
> complexities of operations for containers and iterators.

We have no problem with containers that have different complexity 
guarantees for certain operations. As long as the complexities are 
clearly documented and explained.

-Thorsten