Re: [boost] Re: Re: Proposed smart_handle library

From: Ross Smith (r-smith_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-19 21:52:26

On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:46, Gregory Colvin wrote:
> On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 17:16 America/Denver, Ross Smith wrote:
> ...
>
> > (Of course all of these could easily be unified into a single
> > policy-based type; unfortunately the Powers That Be seem to have
> > decided that policies are too complicated for us mere mortals to be
> > trusted with.)
>
> There are no Powers That Be.  Boost has no policy-based smart
> pointers because nobody has done the difficult job of proposing
> them.

Now that is simply a barefaced lie. I proposed one myself, which got 
roundly ignored, and there have been several others.

-- 
Ross Smith ......... r-smith_at_[hidden] ......... Auckland, New Zealand
  "As Unix guru types go, I'm sweet, patient, and comprehensible.
  Unfortunately, Unix guru types don't go very far in that direction.
  I used to think this was a personality flaw." -- Elizabeth Zwicky