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- From: clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: hash_XXX containers?
- Date: 05 Feb 96 03:21:54 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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- Originator: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
-
- Eugene Lazutkin <eugene@int.com> writes:
-
- >What is a current status of a *Subj* proposal? Is C++ Standard
- >Committee going to accept them or not? What was a problem?
- >How was it solved, if it was?
-
- A proposal was received for adding hash tables to the STL part
- of the standard C++ library. Without addressing its technical
- merit, the C++ Committee decided it was not possible to deal with
- the proposal and still have any chance of meeting the schedule.
-
- The proposal (or perhaps a modified version) was resubmitted
- later. Again without considering the technical merit, the
- Committee noted that the time situation had not changed, and
- it was still not possible to consider the proposal.
-
- To elaborate on the problem of time, nearly two years after
- accepting the original STL proposal, details are still being
- tweaked. The hash table proposal is about half the size of
- the original STL proposal. Even if we had the resources to
- devote to analyzing it, we could not afford to add another
- year to the schedule.
-
- For every person who wants just one more vital feature added to
- the draft, someone else wants the standard to be declared
- finished and published. The Committee has decided not to add
- any more features, and to fix the remaining problems with
- what we already have.
- --
- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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