Re: [boost] Loki SmartPtr study: Policy orthogonality issues

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-05 09:57:16

From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
> I have suggested several times that we look at the Policy Adaptor pattern
> used by the Iterator Adaptors Library. It certainly makes the problem of
> policy interaction go away, since all of the policies are collected in one
> place... but there have been no replies, and I am wondering why. Is it
seen
> as inappropriate for smart pointers? Are people having trouble
understanding
> the suggestion?

Yes (to the second question.)

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Peter Dimov
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