The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

[Max Samukha]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:07:14 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

>
>Apparently the need was felt strongly enough that a library made it into 
>Boost that does exactly initialization of collections (and vector in 
>particular), in spite of being based on a very questionable design 
>technique - overloading of the comma operator.
>
>Andrei

I guess you mean the assignment library
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/assign/doc/index.html.

"These lists are particularly useful in learning, testing, and
prototyping situations, but can also be handy otherwise."

While those are important, I am still not totally convinced that
dynamic arrays initialized from literals occur often in production
code. It remains a matter of opinion.