________________________________________ From: Thorsten Ottosen [tottosen@dezide.com] Sent: 26 September 2017 08:28 To: Fletcher, John P Subject: Re: [boost] [review] The review of Boost.DoubleEnded starts today: September 21 - September 30

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Hi Fletcher,

On another topic, I have not seen in the documentation any discussion of models for what is going on. I am aware of Chris Okasaki's book "Purely Function Data Structures" (1998) and a lot of subsequent literature. Does this work relate at all to previous work? I'm not familiar with that book. You should think of standard C++ containers like std::vector and std::deque which models a sequence concept:

I should have given a reference. Here is one. http://okasaki.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/ten-years-of-purely-functional-data.ht... This is the authors comments on 10 years from publication. If you put the title into google you will get lots of information. My point is that there is a strong theoretical basis in this area and one of the issues for me is how far this has been taken into account in this new work. I was not until recently familiar with the work. It has helped me a lot understand the underlying problems in this area and I want to know whether the author of the library has looked at it. There is nothing in the documentation that I have seen about the wider issues. John Fletcher