Re: [boost] Heterogeneous Container Library (HCL) Feedback and Testing

Subject: Re: [boost] Heterogeneous Container Library (HCL) Feedback and Testing
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-05 08:58:03

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, James Armstrong <armstrhu_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I send out a little feeler about a month ago for interest in a container
> library which natively allows users to insert a heterogeneous set of
> types.  After getting some really good feedback, I think I have settled
> into something that is efficient, has a nice clean interface, and provides
> some useful capabilities.  I am hoping people can take a look at the code,
> test it out, and provide an additional feedback in terms of interface,
> implementation, bugs, or additional features/classes that would be useful.
>
> I have implemented a set of containers which mimic the capabilities of the
> STL containers.  These are (so far)
>
> * heterovector
> * heterostack
> * heteroqueue
> * heterolist
> * heteroforward_list
> * heterodeque
>
>
Hi, I didn't get into details yet, I have questions:

 1. did you consider providing the same containers without asking for types?
   In most of my usage of such containers I don't know which types
   will get in in the end because the container is shared between different
   "modules" all inserting data inside.
  maybe a heterovector<> type that would take anything would be useful to
others too?

 2. did you consider other kinds of non-standard containers?
   I think in the discussion you linked I posted examples of heterogeneous
containers I use in production
   that do not have equivalents in std. From memory:
   a container of 1 value or none for each type, not more, the type(id)
being the key to access the value.