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### 1186. Forward list could model a stack

Section: 24.6.8 [stack] Status: NAD Concepts Submitter: Alisdair Meredith Opened: 2009-07-31 Last modified: 2016-01-28

Priority: Not Prioritized

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Discussion:

The library template `forward_list` could easily model the idea of a `stack`, where the operations work on the front of the list rather than the back. However, the standard library `stack` adaptor cannot support this.

It would be relatively easy to write a partial specialization for `stack` to support `forward_list`, but that opens the question of which header to place it in. A much better solution would be to add a `concept_map` for the `StackLikeContainer` concept to the `<forward_list>` header and then everything just works, including a user's own further uses in a stack-like context.

Therefore while I am submitting the issue now so that it is on record, I strongly recommend we resolve as "NAD Concepts" as any non-concepts based solution will be inferior to the final goal, and the feature is not so compelling it must be supported ahead of the concepts-based library.

[ 2009-11-02 Howard adds: ]

> Moved to Tentatively NAD Concepts after 5 positive votes on c++std-lib.

Rationale:

Any non-concepts based solution will be inferior to the final goal, and the feature is not so compelling it must be supported ahead of the concepts-based library.

Proposed resolution: