Re: [ublas] Transition to default handling of possible lvalue aliases

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-28 06:24:35

Ian McCulloch <ianmcc_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Yep, that calls for a noalias view that you can build around any
>> vector or matrix before passing it into a generic function.
>
> Ok, so that brings us back to something like is_noalias<T> metafunction. 
> Once you give vectors and matrices an 'alias' attribute, whether or not
> there exists a concrete container type (as opposed to a view) that is
> 'noalias', becomes a minor detail?  A user should be able to trivially
> write such a container, even if the lib does not provide one.

Sure.

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Dave Abrahams
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