Re: [boost] Re: Loki SmartPtr questions

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-14 13:39:01

At 11:06 AM 1/14/2002, rogeeff wrote:

 >Ideally Storage Policy manages HOW to allocate/deallocate resource,
 >while Ownership policy manages WHEN to do so.
 >
 >If we will stick to this definition, we will never need to
 >interpolicy (Storage-Ownership at least) communication.

They need some communication, although it may be indirect via the framework 
class.  Thus OwnershipPolicy::Release() tells the framework (via bool 
return) that StoragePolicy::Destroy() should be called.

While StoragePolicy and OwnershipPolicy are mostly independent and 
orthogonal, it isn't quite 100%.

--Beman