VB7 wish: A standard rich set of containers and algorithms...

[Thanassis Stathopoulos]

....much like C++'s STL or Java's collection or ObjectSpace's JGL for Java,
with a thread-neutral implementation and thread-safe,too.

No serious language can afford to be without these. Adopting Ray Brown's
COM-STL bridge and extending it for whatever VB7 will be might just do
it.

Thanassis

[Miha Markic]

"Thanassis Stathopoulos" <thstath@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:38ccce75@news.devx.com...
> ...much like C++'s STL or Java's collection or ObjectSpace's JGL for Java,
> with a thread-neutral implementation and thread-safe,too.

Great idea. Agree 100%

> No serious language can afford to be without these. Adopting Ray Brown's
> COM-STL bridge and extending it for whatever VB7 will be might just do
> it.

Can you explain? What is this bridge? It is something functional?

Miha

[Thanassis Stathopoulos]

It's a set of C++ templates that extend ATL so it can wrap STL containers
and algorithms and expose them as COM interfaces.

It does not expose COM bindings; You can only use it to wrap C++ code.
So you can expose functionality from an STL implementation
to be used by VB clients - but you need to code the parts you want
yourself.

It is free and available at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ray_brown/CSBHome.htm

>> No serious language can afford to be without these. Adopting Ray Brown's
>> COM-STL bridge and extending it for whatever VB7 will be might just do
>> it.
>
>Can you explain? What is this bridge? It is something functional?
>
>Miha