Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Heaps: Mergeable Heaps
From: Andrew Sutton (asutton.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-06 09:31:35
> FWIW, I also found Heap::merge() and Heap::merge_and_clear() «somewhat odd» and
> was left wondering why not overload ::insert() (which copies elements from a
> source) and reuse splice() name from std::list<> which moves nodes from one
> container to the other.
That's because the operations are commonly called merge and union in
the literature. It's best to follow precedent.
Andrew