Container hierarchy vs. container types

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Mar 5 04:28:15 PST 2010


== Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob at me.com)'s article
> On 3/5/10 10:44, BLS wrote:
> > On 05/03/2010 00:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> I want to bring to STL's design are (a) a better categorization of
> >> containers, (b) of course replace iterators with ranges, (c) either
> >> eliminate allocators or make them work.
> >
> > I would like to see : collection update events. The C# C5 library is
> > (afaik) the only container library which implements this very useful
> > feature. (example a database informs connected users about relevant
> > changes to force update the GUI, no need to pull just in case every 5
> > seconds)
> That looks really nice to have.

It's a nice touch. I hope at least to allow that kind of customization from the
outside.

Andrei



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