Re: [boost] [thread] countdown_latch

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] countdown_latch
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-27 12:58:24

Le 27/05/13 11:21, Gaetano Mendola a écrit :
> On 05/26/2013 11:53 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>> 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".
> And it's even a vantage due the fact they share the implementation.
>
>
I should be more precise "equivalent for the user".
Vicente