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> Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ What is a postmodern data structure?

• Etheryte 10y ago
  They probably mean "trying to get on the hype train". I have nothing against immutable data structures, but that wording is just silly.
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  • arximboldi 10y ago
    It was meant as a half-joke picking on how everything is now "modern" on C++. The half-serious part is that there has been a trend in the last few years in the "modern" C++ community against Copy-On-Write, heap allocation, shared pointers, etc. Immutability kind of brings new life to these concepts...
  • andrewchambers 10y ago
    I thought it was clearly a joke poking fun at all the other modern libraries.
• killercup 10y ago
  IIRC postmodernism is related to post-structuralism, which would be quite ironic considering this is about data _structures_.
  • steveklabnik 10y ago
    Ah, but remember that post-structuralism is a _critique_ of structuralism.... (and yeah postmodernism and post-structuralism are related, but like everything in this area, It's Complicated)
    • std_throwaway 10y ago
      I'm glad the author joined us for a Q&A sesh.