[Dune] Standard library enhancements

[Markus Blatt]

Hi,


Just a rather late note on this topic.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:58:16PM +0100, Oliver Sander wrote:
> 
> The library additions contain several tools that we have implemented
> ourselves in dune-common.  Examples include a Tuple class, a fixed-
> size array class and a whole bag of type traits for template meta-
> programming.  Since they are maintained by the GNU folks (with good
> connections to the compiler builders), in the long run we can expect
> them to be superior to our own code.  However, for obvious portability
> reasons we cannot expect them to be present on every machine.
> 
> Here's my proposal.  We change the naming of those of our classes that
> are reimplementations of tr1 classes to conform with those classes.
> Then, a simple AutoTools switch allows to use the built-in classes
> when available and use our own if not.  I expect our own reimplementations
> to be necessary for a long time (read: years), but still if present
> you can get the benefit of built-in classes.
> 

This means that we have to implement all feature of the classes we use
from tr1!

In case of array there are quite some of them missing, e.g. C-array
style assignment in initialisation, tuple access functions ...

Markus