[C++-sig] [ vector | list ] indexing suite

[Niall Douglas]

On 20 Jun 2006 at 14:56, Roman Yakovenko wrote:

> Hi. While working on adding support to pyplusplus for indexing suite,
> I took a look on
> vector_indexing_suite.
> 
> I think that with a small change of code it is possible to make
> "vector_indexing_suite" class
> to work with std::list. The change is simple: to replace operator[]
> and iterator += ( Distance )
> with std::advance( iterator, Distance ). I am almost sure that there
> is no performance
> penalties for this change.
> 
> What do you think? Am I missing some trivial reason why this change
> could not be done?

You would be far better off using the new and improved indexing 
suite. It's still sitting in CVS on some experimental branch. It is a 
lot more efficient, already automatically interfaces with std::list 
and std::vector and also can be easily extended to handle any 
arbitrary kind of container.

TnFOX uses the new indexing suite. Saved me hours of extra work. 
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Cheers,
Niall