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[QUOTE="Seebs, post: 4057832"]
The problem is, the code started out going in a direction that is, so far
as I can tell, completely contrary to anything I want or need.  Imagine
that I was sort of interested in tool design, and someone announced a plan
to work on the hammerscrewdriversaw, a device which is a hammer, a
screwdriver, and a saw.  I might be able to point out things like "you
are going to need wildly incompatible material characteristics for these
three tasks", but I can't do much to help.  Yes, it's hard.  It's extremely
hard.  It's also not something I want to begin with, so it's not clear
why I should help.

It might be rewarding to start by looking at how you'd make a really good
interface for each of two or three common container types, and then examining
the resulting interfaces to see whether there is really enough commonality
to justify trying to build a hybrid.  My guess is that there simply isn't,
and there's also no reason for one.  There simply aren't that many cases
where it would make sense to switch from one to another.

-s
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