Re: [boost] Re: Thoughts on Socket (was: New file uploaded to boost)

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-25 21:16:04

I haven't looked at your stuff in detail, but usually the modern type-safe
way to do this uses a smart pointer to an abstract base class in the header
file. Would that be a better approach?

-Dave

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> A major point of my class was to not use templates at all, so the
> implementation can be offloaded to a source file.  This lets the writer
hide
> the platform-specific stuff there.  This means that the user-visible
> interface can't know anything about the actual (platform-dependent) TCP/IP
> structures.  I represented this by hiding them with a "void*".
>
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> Daryle Walker
> Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
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