[boost] Re: New proposal for boost: carray

From: Gavin Collings (gcollings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-09 11:25:21

jsie-_at_[hidden] wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/boost/?start=1656
> 
> There is a close relative to the array class that is also very
> usefull: an array based on just a pointer to some memory "borrowed"
> from somewhere else, an array_ref class.

It seems like a useful service to provide, but it leaves the
responsibility for construction and destruction of array elements to
derived classes.  This is easy for a derived class using a fixed array
anyway, but in general,  the derived class would want to just hand over
a chunk of memory and get back an initialised (or optionally
uninitialised (?) array), and similarly have the destruction taken care
of in the array_ref destructor.  IOW it seems to me that since
array_ref takes raw memory and turns it into an array, it makes more
sense for it to provide array style initialisation too.

Gavin

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