On 04/01/2016 02:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, April 01, 2016 15:52:49 matovitch via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Indeed, just wanted to point that out. (I guess that's why the
set was introduced before the unordered one in the c++ stl as
well). I feel like containers are an old topic. Last time I asked
I was told : wait for the allocators. What is the advancement on
this side ? Are there any plan at writing more containers for
phobos ? (I know that I am in the bad position of
complaining...but if there is no obstacle...I am ready to write a
draft of hashset in D, although surely not to phobos standards)
Now that Andrei has finished the allocators, he's redesigning the
containers, and supposedly, std.container is going to be replaced with what
he's working on (it'll probably called something like std.collection). How
far along he is, or when he'll actually present anything approaching a final
design, I don't know. He's posted a container or two for discussion
previously, but they were more esoteric things, and he was clearly still
working on a lot of the overall design of how the containers in general
would be put together (e.g. how they would handle Big-O in their API). Once
Andrei is farther along, I'm sure that he'll be looking for contributions
towards filling out a full set of containers based on his general container
API, but for now I'd suggest that folks just use the EMSI containers.
Work on containers has been on hold for three reasons:
1. Paper submission to a conference (more details soon)
2. DConf organizing stuff
3. RCString work, which can proceed in the current language
4. Work on a DIP that allows safe reference counting.
I am confident we'll have good results for all of the above (and
containers too).
Andrei
