"Chris Lawson" <cl@mangler.tinfoilhat.ca> wrote in message news:c7ecp6$lin$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Matthew wrote:
>
> > [Sorry for the post onto the D forum, but I'm going to do that for a little
while
> > longer, until the DTL forum achieves its own momentum.]
> >
> > Not that I'm promising that all suggestions will get in the first version,
but
> > I'd like to know what containers people would like to see as part of the
standard
> > library.
> >
> > For any suggestions that do not have direct analogues in the C++ standard library, descriptions of/links to implementations would be helpful.
> >
> > I'm not planning to put in huge amounts of esoteric containers, but there are certainly things that are missing from the C++ standard library that are
missed.
>
> Will you be receptive to adding in weird containers if people write and submit them to you?

Of course. :)

The whole idea is to create a model for a template library.

For myself, the most important aspect is to define the enumeration standards - this is what I've been doing so far, and what I'm currently waiting on Walter for mixins for.

Second to that is to arbitrate over which containers make it into the std.dtl package. I imagine this will be mainly a demand-driven thing, subject to Walter's approval, though I would hope to have an opinion on this.

Maybe I've not made myself clear enough times on this. I don't propose to be the one writing all the containers, and I have no intention of doing so. What I'm trying to do is layout a common framework for containers, and hope that others adopt that framework and are able to use it in writing their own containers. Whether such containers, weird or normal, would make it into the DTL, or remain as parts of other - Phobos or non-Phobos - packages, would be on a case-by-case basis, and would, I expect, be determined by Walter, and the general community.

It's my belief that this is the best approach for getting a useful, standard, powerful library that rivals the STL in power, but is much easier to understand, use and extend.

"Matthew" <matthew.hat@stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:c7brm0$2p25$3@digitaldaemon.com...
> [Sorry for the post onto the D forum, but I'm going to do that for a
little while
> longer, until the DTL forum achieves its own momentum.]
>
> Not that I'm promising that all suggestions will get in the first version,
but
> I'd like to know what containers people would like to see as part of the
standard
> library.
>
> For any suggestions that do not have direct analogues in the C++ standard library, descriptions of/links to implementations would be helpful.
>
> I'm not planning to put in huge amounts of esoteric containers, but there
are
> certainly things that are missing from the C++ standard library that are
missed.
>
> Cheers

I hope DTL will also have some algorithms like sort,find,findfirstof...,
min,max
templates...
They are very usefull in STL.