State of std.container redesign

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/30/11 1:07 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:52:29 -0400, Ishan Thilina
> <ishanthilina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> The main thing was that all of the containers would become classes
>>> rather than
>>> structs which used reference counting. RedBlackTree has already been
>>> changed
>>> (in git), but the others haven't been yet.
>>
>> Hi, I'm the one who is interested in the GSoC project "Containers".
>> Should the
>> containers that I ( or anyone who gets eligible to do the project )
>> implement be
>> based on structs or classes?
>
> Most definitely final classes. I think Andrei has already decided to
> change the existing ones to classes, and RedBlackTree already is a class
> in the source tree (not yet in the released version).
>
> -Steve

That is correct. We're looking for classes, preponderently final 
classes. Emphasis is not on hierarchy due to the many possible 
characteristics of containers, but instead on name conformance.

Andrei