Re: [boost] Re: in/out parameters, codingstylesandmaintenance

From: Noel Yap (Noel.Yap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-03 20:20:22

"Justin M. Lewis" wrote:
> > OK.  Why not:
> >
> >   c_out< T > t;
> >   f( t ); // this is an out parameter
> >
> >   c_in_out< T > t;
> >   f( t ); // this is an in/out parameter
> >
> 
> Ok, so what's wrong with that?  You still know it's an out param, or an
> in_out param, and can only be passed to functions that take the respective
> type.  I think I removed the cast operators?  I forget, I did locally, to
> fix that problem specifically.

Absolutely nothing is wrong with the above.  The above was a response to
one of your posts saying that "my" solution has the same problem, that
the kind of parameter can't be seen from the call site.

Noel