At Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:40:38 -0500, Andrew Sutton wrote:
I find it interesting, but also a bit sad, that the thread on metaprogramming “plumbing” is very active, while this fundamental question of abstraction and generic programming has gone unaddressed.
... Says the guy who, quite literally, wrote the book on metaprogramming :) Sorry.
The irony is not lost on me. But I fear I've created a monster :(
Is it possible to distill a succinct phrasing of question being posed? I think I'm having trouble reading it through the reply markers. I think I get the basic gist, but I'm not sure my understanding is complete enough to generate an opinion. Maybe it would make a nice article for C++Next.
The question has to do with what kind of abstraction should be used to expose element access in segmented structures. This short and very readable 1998 paper explains the problem space and offers one approach: http://lafstern.org/matt/segmented.pdf -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com