Re: [boost] Re: unions

From: E. Gladyshev (egladysh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-07 20:12:07

--- Eric Friedman <ebf_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> In my opinion, the ability to turn off heap backup for variant should be 
> seen as an optimization (i.e., as it prevents costly heap allocation) 
> and not any sort of interface feature. Please disagree with me though.

The problem is that the user might turn no/off the heap 
backup inadvertently by simple specifying an 'int' 
as the first type. So in generic context, the variant 
protection (with the heap backup) is unpredictable.

Eugene

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