Re: [boost] New New Callbacks Uploaded

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-23 02:15:27

In message <011901c054d7$6bcd1c80$37781990_at_[hidden]>, Greg Colvin
<gcolvin_at_[hidden]> writes
>For that matter, I'm thinking callbacks might be useful to
>let a shared_ptr notify others of its object's immanent
>demise.

This sounds like something that could be built on rather than into
shared_ptr. Sounds like a great idea, and in some ways related to the
weak pointer concept. The difference being that one is push, ie callback
based, and the other is pull, ie poll based.

Kevlin
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