[REBOL] Re: COLLECTing results
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 28-Jul-2003 16:08
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> On Behalf Of Gabriele Santilli
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:33 AM
> To: Robert M. Muench
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: COLLECTing results
> Actually, this is all normal in Lisp etc. The STL is
> just a complicated way to do it in a less powerful language
> such as C++. ;-)
Hi, well I agree but we don't have a STL equivalent for Rebol yet. I,
for long, wish that I have a standard library that I can just use
plug-in in my projects. Yes, there is a lot of stuff available but not
consolidated and done in a conceptual straight way. Even in the
complicated C++ this works mostly perfect with STL.
> If you think about it, it is this way in REBOL too. It's just
> that we can't make custom datatypes.
Not only. Do we have all those STL algorithms done in a way, that
supports the generic approach of the STL? I don't think so. What I would
like to have is:
Foreach btree-datatype [...]
Foreach skip-list [...]
Etc.
And that foreach uses the most efficient way to iterate. Anyway, I think
Rebol has a good bunch of STL already build in. Lot of datatypes for
example. But we can do better in terms of generic library functions.
Robert
