Re: [boost] Re: scoped_ptr: trivial dtor?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-05 09:14:10

At 08:33 AM 4/5/2001, John Maddock wrote:

 >BTW how about :
 >
 >BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(T));
 >
 >which would have the effect you want I think...

I'll test that.

I want to think about the change for a few days, too.  There is a down 
side:

*  The change will break some user code.

*  Destructors become slightly slower.

OTOH:

*  Safety is improved.

*  If the documentation clearly shows how to make non-trivial destructors 
work for opaque (ie, incomplete) implementation classes, that is in effect 
a functionality improvement since the idiom is unfamiliar to many 
programmers.

--Beman