On 09/27/2005 03:24 PM, Calum Grant wrote: [snip]
Is there any interest in providing relational containers in Boost? Are there any features/improvements you can suggest for RML? http://visula.org/relational/implementation.html contains:
The reason this has to be a macro is because it needs to work with names, not just types. It was felt that the benefits of being able to write customer.name or customers.name instead of column<1>(customers) or col<1,1>() outweighs the inherent disadvantages of using a macro. why not use an enumerator: column<name>(customers) instead of a number: column<1>(customers) ? Would this eliminate the macro need? This idea of using enumerators for easier reading was one motivation for the indexed_types library in the sandbox: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/boost/inde...