Re: [boost] [Review] bind

From: Rene Jager (renej_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-18 23:56:31

John Maddock wrote:

[snip...]

>>
>
>Making mem_fun work with a shared pointer is nice, but is it really a
>killer feature?  Users can just as easily pass "my_shared_ptr.get()" rather
>than "my_shared_ptr" into this, and since these are generally used as
>temporaries there is no lifetime management issue here iether IMO.
>
mem_fun does not only work with shared_ptr, but with any smart pointer, 
including
ones that support operator->*; for those types the get_pointer function 
should just
return the smart pointer;
overloading of operator->* is not applied ofen for smart pointers, but 
can be very
useful; for example, I use it to do automagic guarding (mutex) of the 
object the
member function is called for...

renej