RE: [boost] boost::nil

From: Chris Little (cslittle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-08 14:35:46

More bad news.  Apple has a number of types that look like pointers but
after a series of typedefs are unsigned longs.  Since these types are
treated like objects, most code initializes them to nil.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Gregor [mailto:gregod_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:48 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] boost::nil
> 
> 
> On Friday 08 June 2001 02:26 pm, you wrote:
> > Slightly different case.
> >
> > It is not only that there is a file that defines nil, it 
> that there are a
> > large number of files that depend on that definition.  For 
> example, the GUI
> > class library we use on the Mac, for legacy reasons, uses 
> nil instead of
> > NULL in default parameters, to initialize variables, etc. ...
> >
> > Chris
> 
> Unless they actually use it to initialize something other 
> than a pointer, it 
> doesn't matter.
> 
> 	Doug
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