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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' |
| Date | 2021-10-29 14:02 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87fsskugpt.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <8635oklbti.fsf@levado.to> <9288af47-3e78-4016-b5a6-519d44b560b6n@googlegroups.com> |
Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes: > In C++, the term "vector" is misused quite badly to refer to an > array. That's because early on in the development of the standard > template library, the identifier "array" was used for an inconvenient > container that is seldom used, creating the need for another name to > use for the normal array type. What was array used for in the early STL? std::array is present in recent versions of C++, but I don't know of the earlier usage. -- Ben.
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on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 01:00 -0300
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-28 21:29 -0700
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 04:42 -0700
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-10-29 14:02 +0100
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 06:58 -0700
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-29 12:02 -0300
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2021-10-30 09:33 -0700
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-30 15:29 -0300
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-10-30 13:25 -0700
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-10-31 12:02 -0300
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-10-29 16:38 +0100
Re: on ``vector'' and ``array'' Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-10-29 11:08 -0700
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