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reply "Javier Estrada" <ljestrada hotmail.com> writes:

iterators and algorithms--no containers!

The reason that I am posting here is:
- The STL expertise is here!
- I want to "test" how free is free, in particular if I base my port in
available STL code and STL documentation.

The difference between this approach and other approaches that I've seen on
the internet is that:

- I keep the approach simple:  by covering iterators and algorithms only I
don't intend to reinvent the containers in .NET--which by now are so
embedded in tons of code that it would be a moot point, anyway.


think a good example could be STL.

- The iterators use _operators_.  Add, Subtract, Increment, Decrement
operations are provided to interface with other .NET languages

I'd like to find out interested parties that I could *seriously* ask for
their opinion.  The intent of the port is to make the library available for
free--a la Boost or STLSoft--but at the same time make sure that I'm not
infringing copyrights.

At this point, the library is working, with most of the following files
ported:

<iterator>
<algorithm>
<function>

The documentation is available in HTML and Compiled HTML formats.  The
library is provided at this point as an assembly, but source code could be
available.

Of course, with the advent of Whidbey a new library will be in order to
cover generics.

You can reply to this newsgroup or jestrada*at*developeer*dot*com

Regards,

Javier Estrada
jestrada*at*developeer*dot*com
Jan 28 2004
parent "Matthew" <matthew.hat stlsoft.dot.org> writes:
"Javier Estrada" <ljestrada hotmail.com> wrote in message
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for

 iterators and algorithms--no containers!


Interesting.


 The reason that I am posting here is:
 - The STL expertise is here!


Maybe. ;)


 - I want to "test" how free is free, in particular if I base my port in
 available STL code and STL documentation.


I don't know what you mean by this


 The difference between this approach and other approaches that I've seen


on

 the internet is that:

 - I keep the approach simple:  by covering iterators and algorithms only I
 don't intend to reinvent the containers in .NET--which by now are so
 embedded in tons of code that it would be a moot point, anyway.


Simple is good! A lot of people tend to forget that. :)



 think a good example could be STL.

 - The iterators use _operators_.  Add, Subtract, Increment, Decrement
 operations are provided to interface with other .NET languages

 I'd like to find out interested parties that I could *seriously* ask for
 their opinion.  The intent of the port is to make the library available


for

 free--a la Boost or STLSoft--but at the same time make sure that I'm not
 infringing copyrights.


Sounds interesting. In Feb/Mar I'm about to start several new threads of
work, to which this may be relevant:

1. my next book, which is about applied STL
2. working on the template library for D (news://news.digitalmars.com/d)
3. releasing a much updated STLSoft.

Maybe your ideas can spark new ideas in my work, and vice versa. Maybe your
work can be incorporated in the STLSoft sub-project .netSTL
(http://dotnetstl.org/), which I plan to release with v1.7.1? (There are a
few little .netSTL things in v1.6.5, in the "research" sub-directory.)


 At this point, the library is working, with most of the following files
 ported:

 <iterator>
 <algorithm>
 <function>

 The documentation is available in HTML and Compiled HTML formats.  The
 library is provided at this point as an assembly, but source code could be
 available.


Please feel free to post it here, or to email me personally (matthew hat
synesis d0t com d0t au)


 Of course, with the advent of Whidbey a new library will be in order to
 cover generics.

 You can reply to this newsgroup or jestrada*at*developeer*dot*com

 Regards,

 Javier Estrada
 jestrada*at*developeer*dot*com


Matthew Wilson

STLSoft moderator
    (http://www.stlsoft.org)
Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
    (www.synesis.com.au/articles.html#columns)

"If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk
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