In PXXX, I put « Move-With-Last-Swap / Reorderase » for the moment and
we'll find a better name if needed (it's a bit early for that). I'd focus
on the technical issues initially, and feel LEWG's mood for the name.

Thanks!

Le jeu. 24 août 2023 à 20:07, Matt Bentley via SG14 <sg14_at_[hidden]>
a écrit :

> Hi all-
>
> as per the last meeting there was some support for putting forward a
> proposal for what I call reorderase (plflib.org/reorderase.htm) but is
> really just an iteration of the swap-and-pop idiom, optimized (no swap,
> just move) and extended to range-erase and std::erase_if/std::erase. See
> the page for more information.
>
> There was some discussion of this back in 2015 by Brent Freidman but he
> was focused on the erase_if equivalents - which're the worse-performing of
> the set.
>
> I have a few questions before putting a paper together, the first of which
> is bikeshedding. I'm pretty settled on the name 'move_pop', for reasons
> which will become clear, but I am open to suggestions. Please let me know
> what you think:
>
>
> Names which aren't appropriate:
>
> - I like portmanteau's but the standard doesn't, so I'm guessing
> 'reorderase' is out of the question; possibly unfair on non-english
> speakers.
> - Anything with 'swap' in it. Implies operations which do not occur,
> also implies allocation.
> - Anything with 'unstable' in it - in the case of the standard library
> the term 'unstable' is not defined or used, only the term 'stable' is
> defined. In addition the word has a bad connotation in terms of programs,
> and algorithms are assumed to be unstable by-default where 'stable' is not
> used in functions.
> - Anything long like 'unstable', 'disordered', 'unordered',
> 'reordering', etc; at least for the singular/range reorderase equivalents.
> They are expected to be commonly-used functions, so long is Bad. I don't
> mind a longer title on the erase_if/remove_if equivalent as this is
> expected to be less-frequently used.
> - Anything involving 'back' or 'front'. A deque would want to pop from
> the front if location == begin() or first == begin() (in
> reorderase(first, last)), and we would want the name to be consistent
> between deques and vectors/inplace_vectors (if we want to support deques).
>
> Potential names:
>
> - move_pop/move_and_pop (the standard currently has about 1 other
> function which uses _and_ but it seems an unnecessary elongation) - this is
> good enough, and short, and brings in the 'pop' association with being
> quick/O(1).
> - ...? Suggestions?
> - For an std::erase_if/std::erase equivalent, using the 'pop' thing
> won't work, as erase_if already does this (moves the stuff to the back,
> erases it). If we go with a remove_if-equivalent implementation instead of
> erase_if, pop also doesn't work because remove_if doesn't erase/pop
> anything. I'm leaning towards (assuming a remove_if equivalent member
> function instead of erase_if) 'unordered_remove_if'/'unordered_remove', or
> 'disordered_remove_if'/'disordered_remove'. I prefer the latter is it
> clearly implies that there *will be* a disruption of order in the use
> of this function.
>
>
> M@
>
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