[Help-glpk] variable object and deletions

[Yingjie Lan]

Hi, 

Suppose you would like to use a variable object (a C structure, or C++ class, 
or Python class, etc) to represent a column in GLPK, it is probably natural to 
let the variable object have an integer field called 'index', which is the 
index of this variable in the GLPK model (the API of GLPK use this index very 
often). But there is a problem: when you delete a variable, you must update all 
this field for all variables behind the deleted variable. I am also aware of 
another index, which is the name of each variable, but it is less efficient 
(probably OK if doing Python). I wonder if there is a more elegant way to 
implement a variable object that would significantly brings down the overhead 
involved with variable deletions. Similar problem can be proposed for 
constraints, of course, and I suspect the solution is similar too.

Regards,

Yingjie