Re: [ALACPP] gar!

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

Jon Stewart wrote:

> The documentation for the Boost Graph Library is driving me insane (not to 
> mention the C++ In Depth series book that covers it)!
>
> Vertex iterators... check. Edge iterators... check. Adjacency iterators... 
> check. DFS Vistor... double-check. But can I really be the only one who 
> wants to associate an instance of a user-defined type/struct/class with 
> each vertex, and do so simply? What's with all the property map bullshit? 
> Great, that's nice for coloring, but am I really supposed to split up my 
> struct into a million parallel property maps using some horrible 
> BOOST_INSTALL_PROPERTY macro???
>
> Of course, I am no doubt grossly misunderstanding the library, but I've 
> yet to tease this seemingly common usage out of the documentation.
>  
Hey! The list is working again. It's a miracle!

Here's a crazy thought... keep your structs/classes out of the graph. 
Have a simple mapping from vertex or edge id's to your object that is 
completely separate from the graph.

--Chris
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