Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [mpl]... is there an mpl::string
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-10 17:47:46
Eric Niebler wrote:
> There's another consideration that I've been glossing over. mpl::string
> isn't *really* random access. Since mpl::string<'a','b','c'> designates
> the same character sequence as mpl::string<'abc'>, it takes O(N)
> template instantiations to find the N-th element in the sequence, at
> least in the current implementation. I'd like to fix that, but I don't
> know how (yet).
Now this is really bothering me. The right thing to do is replace the
current implementation with one in which mpl::string is a front- and
back-extensible bidirectional sequence, and give up with the random
access pretense. :-(
-- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com