Re: [boost] Re: safe_bool alternative?

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-27 03:15:51

Daryle Walker <darylew_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> All of the operator helpers need the final type to provide a core routine.
> AFAIK, Peter's idiom is to use a pointer-to-member(-function) as the core
> Boolean routine; it can't be provided by a library.

Why are you so sure? And BTW, why do people call it Peter's idiom.
AFAIK, it was Daveed Vandevoorde who first suggested the trick.

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