RFC: naming for FrontTransversal and Transversal ranges

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 19:31:11 PDT 2009


Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>>> Don't forget:
>>>  + Supports timely destruction of contents (i.e. RAII).
>> These are collections. RAII doesn't matter when you have a garbage
>> collector and the only resource you have is memory, unless you're quite
>> strapped for memory.
> 
> It also doesn't matter if the resource deallocation pixie deallocates
> all my non-memory resources the moment they are no longer being used,
> which is about as likely as only having memory resources in arrays.

Which requires the container to know to delete everything that it 
references when it dies. If it is dealing with reference types, that is 
not the correct behavior. It seems awkward to me to deal with value 
types with destructors, but it makes sense for reference counting.



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