Hi Frank, Yes, I have considered such a thing, though rather than returning a collection specifically, I have considered upgrading multi_array to use the Boost.Range concepts. Then there could be versions of shape, indices, etc. that return a pair of pointers, which could be treated as Ranges. Ron On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
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Has there ever been any thought to making multi_array::shape() return something that models the Collection concept (RandomAccessCollection in particular I suppose) rather than a raw pointer? This would allow the return value from shape() to be passed directly to multi_array::reshape() or multi_array::resize(), for added convenience. It would also allow a debug assertion to be added to make sure you don't try to access beyond the end of the array returned by shape().
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