RFC: naming for FrontTransversal and Transversal ranges

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri May 1 12:07:17 PDT 2009


Robert Jacques wrote:
> Yes. See java.util.concurrent for examples. In fact, all of the 
> algorithms I've read explicitly don't support copying, which is why I'm 
> asking.
> 
>> Why would the
>> issues different between reference types and value types?
> 
> A value type has to support copying. Reference types don't. Perhaps I 
> should have said value semantics / reference semantics instead.

I thought lock-free data structures are the quintessential COW type. You 
might as well just have provided the perfect argument against your case.

Andrei



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