Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:
Hello,
I'm considering the possibility of devising a new type of index for Boost.MultiIndex with random-access capabilities, modeled pretty much after the interface of std::vector (with some significant pros and cons.) The basic features of such an index would be:
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My questions are:
A. Is there interest in having this in Boost.MultiIndex? I wouldn't like to add stuff just for the fun of it.
Definitely! I've been thinking about replacing the internals of a display Table class that is derived from the MFC ListView class. I need random access when the user does in place editing, while also needing to allow ordering by multiple indices when the user clicks on a column header.
B. Any suggestion for the name of such an index?
Off the top of my head: - positional_index - vectored_index - random_access_index Jeff