Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Sunday 07 August 2005 13:21, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I just happened to open Konqueror to the root of a recent boost CVS, and discovered an HTML file with some information I've never seen before. Among that information was a link to the Boost.Iostreams library. I don't see any reference to it on the Boost homepage, and when I searched the site I didn't find much there. But I've found it elsewhere on the Internet. I'm confused as to the status of the library. Is it a continuing project? I sure hope so.
Boost.Iostreams was accepted almost a year ago (can it be that long?) but will make its first official appearance as part of Boost in the 1.33 release -- any day now.
Thank you. This is good news.
I do have a question/observation regarding the mapped_file classes. I see they advertise their element type as `typedef char char_type;'. I'm treating it as a container in the STL sense. In ISO/IEC 14882:2003(E) ยง32.1 containers are specified to have `X::value_type T' as well as a difference_type which is the same as the difference_type for the iterator type defined for the container. In the case of a mapped_file, I guess that would be what is given by applying one of these to char_type:
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I see that mapped_file has some "Container interface" items, so it's an idea that's already been partially implemented. It seems reasonable to flesh it out, unless there's some obstacle to doing so.
I left the container interface undocumented because I wasn't happy with it. I guess I should add the missing typedefs in the next release. Jonathan