[boost] Re: shared_ptr and ->*

From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-08 17:38:46

"Paul Mensonides" <pmenso57_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:001201c226c7$e2cb0ae0$7772e50c_at_c161550a...
> [...]
> It is possible to implement a closure facility to handle this.  The
> preprocessor library can generate the necessary specializations
> to support various pointer-to-member arities.
> [...]

So you're saying that implementing operator->* basically requires
closures because of the return type?  I guess I didn't think about it,
but that makes sense.  I wonder if there is an easy way to hijack
boost::function to help here?

Dave