[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Jonathan Harker]

On Monday 16 Dec 2002 7:17 am, Nix wrote:
> (Actually, I disagree here; unless profiling shows an inefficiency hit,
> I prefer to use the algorithm for ease of movement of code between
> different containers. Your code should ideally not care what container
> it's implemented above, but should just care about iterators --- and
> algorithmic complexity of course.)

You should never rely on being able to change your containers around 
willy-nilly - again cf. Effective STL (I forget the item number, and I also 
forget the rationale, but it made perfect sense at the time. Don't you hate 
it when you remember stuff, but can't remember the reasons? It makes for 
really lame debating! :-)

-- 
Jonathan Harker
MUSAC
Massey University
http://www.massey.ac.nz/

"Oh no, not again." 
    - A bowl of petunias on its way to certain death. 


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug