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

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-11 11:46:22

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From: "Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_[hidden]>

> But this operation is nonsensical in most, if not all, cases. Why would
> someone need to alter a shared_array? It doesn't make sense; it means that
> either before, or after the operation, the pointee array will be wrong.

I don't understand what you're saying. This sounds like an argument for
functional programming in general (all data is const) ???

Doesn't the shared_array as owning iterator make sense to you?