Re: Boost.Threads - thread_desc concept

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-06-30 22:43:46

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> The user is not forced to call new if we have a generator function 
producing
> the appropriate auto_ptr.

I don't think we serve the user by requiring the objects to be 
created on the heap either.  I'm not sure what the aversion to new 
is.  I understand the aversion to raw pointers, but that's not the 
same argument.

Bill Kempf