Fundamental C++: the Element design pattern.

Core constructs for Vaucanson. More...

Files
file	element.hh
	Declaration of Element.
file	meta_element_root.hh
	Definition of the specialization of MetaElement for the root Structure.
file	predecls.hh
	Forward declarations of the design pattern template classes of Vaucanson.
file	slots.hh
	Declaration of set attribute slot for Element.
file	structure.hh
	Definition of class Structure, the root of all structural element types.
file	syntactic_decorator.hh
	Declaration of the very base class of Element.
Modules
group	Operators
Classes
class	Element
	Glue class between structural elements and implementation values. More...
struct	MetaElement< Structure< S >, T >
	The base class that glues structural elements to implementation values. More...
struct	SetSlotAttribute
	Base class for SetSlot. More...
struct	SetSlotAttribute< S, true >
	Base class for SetSlot, specializing SetSlotAttribute. More...
struct	SetSlot
	Type of the set_ attribute of the Element class. More...
struct	Structure
	Base class for the hierarchy of structural element types. More...
struct	dynamic_traits< Structure< S > >
	Specialization of dynamic_traits for Structure. More...
struct	virtual_types< Structure< S > >
	Specialization of virtual_types for Structure. More...
struct	SyntacticDecorator
	This class provides the standard operator delegations to Element. More...
class	MetaElement
	Parent class of Element. More...

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Detailed Description

Core constructs for Vaucanson.

This module contains definitions for the design pattern used in Vaucanson, so called "Element". This design pattern is more deeply described in the paper by Yann Régis-Gianas and Raphaël Poss: On orthogonal specialization in C++: Dealing with efficiency and algebraic abstraction in Vaucanson. In the proceedings of the Parallel/High-performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC'2003) Darmstadt, Germany July 2003.

See also:

http://www.lrde.epita.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Publications/200307-Poosc

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