Container hierarchy vs. container types

[Jacob Carlborg]

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.

> Beside, Implementing update events could be a good reason to give
> std.pattern a new try...
>
> http://www.itu.dk/research/c5/
>
>> Please speak up - the future of D depends, in small part, on
>> this too.
>> Andrei
>
> I think it is a big win for the D2 community to have a container
> library. I.E. porting C++ will be more comfortable.
> Bjoern
>