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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: asynchronous task communication
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:02:52 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2013-01-08T12:02:52+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kch1tc$u9s$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kcf428$on8$1@dont-email.me

On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:27:20 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> On 01/07/2013 03:49 AM, Brian Drummond wrote:
>>
>> Then how do you maintain links from one such object to others, to build
>> a network or graph? You can access a vector element via a cursor - is
>> it safe and reasonable to store and use cursors to maintain references
>> to an object as the vector grows?
> 
> A "vector" is an unbounded array. You access an array component using an
> index,
> and that is also how to reference a component of an unbounded array. The
> index of a specific component will not change unless the user
> specifically changes it (by inserting a component with a smaller index,
> for example).

And the index is a Cursor type.

So, holding onto a cursor would be unsafe (i.e. no longer refer to the 
original object) after an "insert" operation, possibly earlier in the 
vector?

- Brian



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-08 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-31  0:16 asynchronous task communication Charles Hixson
2012-12-31  9:04 ` Simon Wright
2012-12-31 11:49   ` Simon Wright
2012-12-31 10:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-12-31 12:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-31 18:52   ` Charles Hixson
2012-12-31 20:18     ` Shark8
2012-12-31 21:09     ` Niklas Holsti
2012-12-31 22:15       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-01  3:58         ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-01  4:48           ` tmoran
2013-01-01 17:59             ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-01  3:51       ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-01  9:59         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-01 10:38         ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-01 12:32         ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-01 18:21           ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-01 18:54             ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-02  7:36               ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-02  9:55                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-02 19:02                   ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-02 20:35                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-03  0:20                       ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-03  6:34                         ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-03  8:50                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-03 19:01                           ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-03 10:01                         ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-03 19:29                           ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-04  8:17                             ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-05  4:31                               ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-09  8:34                                 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-03 22:27                         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05  5:18                           ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-05  8:48                             ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-06 22:55                               ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-07  0:38                                 ` tmoran
2013-01-07  6:07                                 ` Shark8
2013-01-07 10:49                                 ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-07 18:27                                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 12:02                                     ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2013-01-08 17:12                                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 18:18                                         ` Simon Wright
2013-01-08 20:29                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-08 21:01                                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 21:14                                             ` Simon Wright
2013-01-08 22:11                                               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-08 22:52                                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 22:26                                         ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-08  2:41                             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-02 22:43         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-03  1:30           ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-03 12:11             ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-03 13:17               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-05 20:19               ` Charles Hixson
2013-01-07  4:01                 ` Shark8
2013-01-01 19:59     ` J-P. Rosen
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