Matt Calabrese wrote:
On 7/4/06, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen@dezide.com> wrote:
I think the idea of specializing the entire container library is very bad, to say the least. For example, std::vector< std::vector< clone_ptr<T> > > will still behave like a super slow beast without move-semantics.
Optimization is fine, and again, all of this allows for just as efficient code as ptr_containers, but the difference here is that the syntax for doing so is consistent with the rest of the language and is much easier to use in order to produce efficient generic code,
I can't imagine what kind of generic code you're talking about.
and it doesn't require the user to learn additional container types. To me it seems win-win for almost all uses, having very few down-sides.
If you not willing to accept that value-based programming and OO programming are different disciplines, we will never agree on this one. Period. -Thorsten