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Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] countdown_latch
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-26 17:53:03


Le 26/05/13 22:45, Gaetano Mendola a écrit :
> On 26/05/2013 22.01, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>> Would the base Latch class be public? if not, this is an implementation
>> detail and is equivalent to having two classes but sharing a common
>> implementation.
>
> Well, not equivalent because with let say a boolean as parameter you
> need to check at runtime what to do (reset the counter or not) this
> way with a policy the choose is made a compile time, also implementing it
> with a boolean will force you to store anyway the original counter
> value, NoResetPolicy to the other side will be an empty class.
I said "equivalent to having two classes".
Best,
Vicente


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