[boost] Re: weak pointers and cycles

From: Andy Sawyer (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-12-02 08:45:12

On 02 December 1999 05:11, Greg Colvin wrote:

> The point is that once you have added the allocator argument to
> shared_ptr you can partially specialize to do all kinds of things.

 As has been pointed out on more than one occasion, the most common
use of allocators [in the standard library, at least] is as hooks into
the type system for specialisations (partial and otherwise)

Regards,
 Andy

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