Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #3168: Request for boost::array::fill(const T&), following C++0x

niels_dekker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:41:00 GMT

Related LWG issue (defect): 776. Undescribed assign function of std::array, submitted by Daniel Krügler

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Steven Watanabe — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:53:12 GMT

owner changed from No-Maintainer to Steven Watanabe
status new → assigned

niels_dekker — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:20:26 GMT

Thanks for assigning the ticket, Steven. Clearly, the intention of the ticket is to keep boost::array in sync with std::array from C++0x. Only after submitting the ticket, I realized that none of the other STL containers has a fill member function. And it isn't really clear to me why std::array has one. (I might as well use the range-based fill algorithm instead.) What do you think?

Steven Watanabe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:28:14 GMT

Replying to niels_dekker:

Thanks for assigning the ticket, Steven. Clearly, the intention of the ticket is to keep boost::array in sync with std::array from C++0x. Only after submitting the ticket, I realized that none of the other STL containers has a fill member function. And it isn't really clear to me why std::array has one. (I might as well use the range-based fill algorithm instead.) What do you think?

On the other hand, the other standard containers have a

void assign(size_type n, const T& u);

fill is the equivalent for array since the size of an array is fixed.

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Marshall Clow — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:46 GMT

owner changed from Steven Watanabe to Marshall Clow
status assigned → new

Added in revision 60436. Will migrate to release before 1.43

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Marshall Clow — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:57:49 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → fixed

Migrated to release branch in revision 60824