== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > Hi everyone, > I'm on a trip to Romania visiting relatives. Being disconnected for a > while, I thought some about container types and started writing some code. > It didn't take long to figure that a classic class hierarchy with > inheritance etc. would contain prohibitively many types (with awkward > names too), or would lose a lot of expressiveness. There are just so > many types of containers, and they have so different characteristics. > My second shot was with a capability-based architecture suggested (in an > unrelated context) by Scott Meyers > (http://www.artima.com/cppsource/codefeatures.html - good article, > recommended regardless). Some capabilities I came up with were: > enum ContCaps : uint > { > hasLength = 1, > hasAssignableLength = 2, > hasPushBack = 4, > hasRemoveBack = 8, > hasPushFront = 16, > hasRemoveFront = 32, > linear = 64, > hasFront = 128, > hasBack = 256, > randomAccess = 512, > }
This is why I hate nominative typing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_type_system).
