[boost] Re: Re: RFC: Inheritance alternatives for policy-based smart_ptr

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-01 03:22:47

"Phil Nash" <phil.nash.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:006501c1f0ab$d2d5def0$7eb187d9_at_TimeMachine...
> (1) We started out with that "good reason" - to allow for compilers that
> don't do EBO (or don't do a good job of it - David's analysis seems to
> suggest there are middling degrees).

I do not think that compilers deficiency should drive our design

> (2) I argued that, with the complexity encapsulated up in the policy_mixer
> we don't introduce too much more into the design

It seems that in some other post you named amount of code used to present
only sketch "daunting in comparison with MI solution".

> Regards,
>
> [)o
> IhIL..

Regards,

Gennadiy.