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From: chun ping wang (cablepuff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-19 16:04:35


good stuff.

Anyways It be cool that assign library also gets updated so that it can
integerate well with unordered_map and unordered_sets.

It should be easy to fix... those are map.hpp and set.hpp from
boost/assign/std folder.

On Dec 19, 2007 12:33 PM, Ion Gaztañaga <igaztanaga_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> The Unordered library submitted by Daniel James has been *accepted* into
> Boost. Thanks to all reviewers and all who contributed to the library
> before the review.
>
> We've received 8 reviews (Thosten Ottosen, Chun Ping Wang, Hervé
> Brönnimann, John Torjo, Cromwell Enage, Jamie Allsop, Graham Mark and
> Paul Bristow), and all were positive (since Chun's only complain was
> packaging and his ratings were all above 7 out of 10). Darren Cook
> privately sent me a positive mini-review (attached below). If I've
> missed any review, please let me know.
>
> I plan to write a post this weekend with a summary of
> requests/suggestions and Daniel's replies.
>
> Congrats Daniel!
>
> Regards,
>
> Ion
>
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> Hi Ion,
> Not critical but the images seem to be missing. E.g. on
> http://igaztanaga.drivehq.com/unordered/unordered/buckets.html
>
> If I find time I will try out the library and write a review in the
> week, but here is a mini-review (feel free to forward to the list - I'm
> not subscribed at the moment):
>
> Documentation:
> * Fine
>
> * The concrete examples of how to use a custom type, and a custom hash
> function, and do everything in portable TR1, are wonderful - I've
> searched before and never been able to find something as clear as this
> seems to be.
>
> * In Table 1.4: "No equivalent. No idea why." is not very Boost-like
> :-) . Isn't the reason simply that there is no ordering in hash
> containers, so therefore no ordering function?
>
>
> > > * What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
> > > * Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?
>
> Yes. It is essential it gets into Boost as rapidly as possible; in fact
> I think it should be released as a patch to the current release. Having
> all of TR1 except for the hashed containers is a nasty red pimple on the
> otherwise very handsome nose of Boost.
>
> In particular, Visual C++ *still* does not ship with TR1 ("no plans
> until 2009" was the rumour I found), so anyone wanting to ship portable
> code is relying on Boost. And, at least for me, unordered_map is the
> single most useful library in TR1.
>
> Darren
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