GSoC-2011 project:: Containers

[Ishan Thilina]

Hi,

I'm the one who posted "Interested in a GSoC project idea-
http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=132495
" earlier. Before progressing any further I thought it's better to give a
brief introduction about me first( as most of the other fellow participants
have done). I'm a 2nd year undergraduate from the University of Moratuwa, Sri
Lanka who is specializing in the field of Computer science and Engineering. I
have programming experience in C, C++ and Java. I specifically chose this
organization because I like to take new challenges.

So after looking at all the project ideas posted in the wiki I thought that I
should stick to the "Containers" project because data structures are something
that I know of fairly well.

I have been playing with D for few days now. In that period I learned about D,
learned how to use templates and implemented a simple stack using templates.
But most of
the time was spent trying to understand std.container code. Well to be honest
I'm a bit confused now. I observed that std.container contains implementation
for all the 4 containers that are available in D. But I found another set of
implementations of data structures such as List from here (
http://www.dprogramming.com/list.php ). And the latter List doesn't have the
same methods that are in std.container. Why is this? Can anyone point me to a
proper direction so that I could study exactly what I need to study rather
than looking at all the code in the std.container?

Thank you...!