Howard Hinnant wrote:
> In article <5b91g3F2rt1iiU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  bop@gmb.dk ("Bo Persson") wrote:
>
>> I notice in the draft N2284 that sequence containers have had one
>> constructor split in two. We now have (for list<T>):
>>
>> explicit list(size_type n);
>> list(size_type n, const T& value, const Allocator& = Allocator());
>>
>> How come the first type of constructor doesn't take an allocator
>> parameter?
>
> Mainly just history.  People have never been able to say:
>
> std::list<T, A> c(n, A());
>
> And I've never heard any requests for that functionality.  So I didn't
> add it.  It easily could be added.  Is there demand for it?  Would you
> be willing to write a short paper or defect report with detailed
> proposed wording relative to N2284?
>

Please, not a "defect report." Defect reports apply only to published
standards, and they invoke a formal response process.

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 -- Pete
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Reference." (www.petebecker.com/tr1book)

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