On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Igor R
A little background, we've got Visual Studio 2008 C++/CLI library through which we'd like to expose a dictionary-mapped data abstraction. We'd like to be able to ask some questions about the dictionary mapping, whether for its keys, values, or some combination thereof.
I've got a strong background in C# particularly with regard to its Generic Collections and the Linq area. This is how I'd like to think of the dictionary questions. The rub of course is that the support for C++/CLI Linq is rather slim, if at all.
Does boost offer something along these lines comparable to Linq?
If you mean sql-like syntax, then the answer is most likely no.
Well, not SQL-like exactly. In the C# world, I utilize the Linq extension methods almost exclusively and find that this meets 90% of our needs. So even if that had to appear like Where(my_list, () => { /* a lambda */ }), this would be perfectly fine.
However, putting syntax aside, MultiIndex offers very powerful and flexible facilities. Sometimes you can also combine it with Lambda or Phoenix to get some "syntactic sugar", like this:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/multi_index/doc/tutorial/basics.ht...
May be worth looking into, thanks. For now, I'm going with STL/NET for its .NET-friendly map<> since I want to map C++/CLI managed classes into the structure. It's a little more work, but not a lot more work, to get at the keys and/or values for the questions we want to ask. This requirement may out-weigh using boost-collections, etc. Thanks for the response. ______________________________________________
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