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Document number: N4056

Date: 2014-05-23

Minimal incomplete type support for standard containers

by Zhihao Yuan

Excerpt:

In the previous version (N3890) of this paper, we explored the possibility to make all STL containers usable in the recursive data structure definitions, such as

struct Entry
{
    std::list<Entry> messages;
    // ...
};

Based on the discussion on the Issaquah meeting, we achieved the consensus to processed with the approach – “Containers of Incomplete Types”, but limit the scope to std::vector, std::list, and std::forward_list, as the first step.