[boost] Re: Singular variants?

From: Eric Friedman (ebf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-11 20:47:41

E. Gladyshev wrote:
> Ideally this functionality is better
> to be buit in into the language, 
> like operator 'new'.

FWIW, I don't see how this would solve anything, except perhaps to make 
the syntax for visitation nicer (a la ML). Unless the concept of object 
lifetime is changed, the implementation (language- or library-provided) 
would still have the same problem.

Eric