[boost] Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-01 16:28:33

E. Gladyshev wrote:
>> Not quite.  pImpl is really bad when you have
>> multiple interacting
>> concrete types.  I think you'll find yourself doing
>> a lot of
>> polymorphic_downcast<>s.
>
> Another good point against the pImpl idiom.  I'd
> suggest to overwrite some of the boost libaries that
> use the pImpl thing.  It is not like a modern C++ at
> all.

Are you aware that the pImpl idiom is used for many different things or have
you just decided its not modern C++ at all because you don't use it for the
things you want to do ?