[boost] Re: shifted_ptr: why?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-01 12:50:25

"Rozental, Gennadiy" <gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I looked over this submission. Even though I have several issues with the
> code and implementation, my main concern here is: why?
>
> Why would we need another custom smart pointer component, while it could be
> easily implemented using PBSP plus custom object generator?
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure?  IIUC, PBSP would be little help the interesting part of
this design.  The smart pointer interface is the easy part.

>
> Did I miss something?
>
> As it stands my vote it to reject this submission. Later on it could be
> implemented as specific PBSP policy.

And that would make it acceptable?

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