On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2013/12/10 Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> > >> Keep in mind that proliferation of different types for the same >> functionality hurts developer productivity in various ways, especially >> when >> they have quite different APIs. That's the main reason I'm not excited >> about widespread usage of a lot of new (to us) container types. >> > > For the same reason as described above, I believe that adopting STL > containers is the solution, not the problem! The STL shows how to design > containers that have a sufficiently similar API that, in most cases where > that makes sense (e.g. between a map and an unordered_map), you can switch > containers without having to adapt to a different API. > I'm not a fan of the STL's approach of making every data structure feel like an array. It leads to nonsense like the erase-remove idiom. A remove function that doesn't actually remove anything, now that's a footgun :-). Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
