Re: [boost] Re: Boost memory management guidelines

From: Gregory Colvin (gregory.colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-30 17:58:10

On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 13:20 America/Denver, David Abrahams 
wrote:
> ...
> It seems to me that class templates which only need to allocate at
> construction time shouldn't take type parameters which specify
> allocation, but should instead take argument objects.  The rest
> probably should use type parameters. ...

The other reason to use an allocator as a type argument is that
you want to support proxy pointers.