Re: List Container Strawman 1.4

["Mark Lundquist" <no.spam@getalife.com>]

"Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message
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> "Mark Lundquist" <no.spam@getalife.com> writes:
>
> >> What about a generic version of To and From which can handle arrays
> >> with different index types?
> >
> > Interesting idea, but I doubt if it would be useful enough to be
justified.
> > A list abstraction of this sort is unbounded, and since the only reason
you
> > would convert To it from one of these things with a non-integer index
type
> > would be to convert From the list back to it again, you're not going to
be
> > adding or deleting elements...
>
> Some people like to have different integer types for different things.

Whups, my bad... I was thinking just of enumeration types...

> >
> > There are no defaults for anything other than an "in" mode parameter.
>
> You can supply defaults even without default_expressions.  In this
> case, simply assign the variable in the caller, before the call.

Oh, I see what you mean.

-- mark