[Dune] Standard library enhancements

[Oliver Sander]

Markus Blatt wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:45:13PM +0200, Oliver Sander wrote:
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>>Markus Blatt wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:58:16PM +0100, Oliver Sander wrote:
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>>>This means that we have to implement all feature of the classes we use
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>>>from tr1!
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>>>In case of array there are quite some of them missing, e.g. C-array
>>>style assignment in initialisation, tuple access functions ...
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>>I know.  However, AFAIK, nobody uses these features within
>>core dune because FixedArray doesn't have them.  I propose
>>to not do anything unless serious need arises.
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>Yes some of them are used. I switched some part of dune-disc from
>FixedArray to array. Unfortunately tr1::array does not have an
>function operator=(const T&) but just assign(const T& t). There just
>substituting FixedArray with array did not work.
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Yes, I forgot I about that one (sorry), because I considered
it minor.  I had already fixed that locally, but didn't check
it in because now you can't use dune-disc with 1.0 anymore.
Was your last dune-disc commit deliberate?

By the way, can we have email commit notification for
dune-disc back?  Thank you!

>By the way, I thought that the goal of your changes is to switch to
>array later on. Therefore everybody should use use array. As I (and
>probably many others) use a compiler with the tr1 extensions this will
>lead to unnoticed bugs when accidentally using features not supported 
>by Dune.
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Well, obviously, the best thing to do is to reimplement all the nice
std::array features in Dune::array.  However that looks like a lot of
work to me and I am still trying to make myself believe that it is
not necessary... doesn't really work, though.

--
Oliver


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