Re: [boost] Re: safe_bool alternative?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-27 09:32:15

Joel de Guzman wrote:
>
> And BTW, why do people call it Peter's idiom.

Because it is?

http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg13128.php

Note the date. Also note that the archives are brain dead and the non-cached
link points to a different message. There is no history on the Web.

> AFAIK, it was Daveed Vandevoorde who first suggested the trick.

Daveed Vandevoorde first suggested that a pointer to a data member would be
more efficient.