Re: [boost] Boost Signal Bug

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-30 13:49:16

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 11:14 am, Neal Coombes wrote:
> However, I would venture to claim that a signal being called without any
> slots is not a rare case.  In fact I'd guess that might be the most
> likely case.  Certainly, as a library writer, I cannot assume that all
> the signals I provide to my users are going to be used in every
> application.
>
> My suggestion is to provide a default combiner that does the bare
> minimum, just call the slots:
>
> namespace boost {
>    struct default_combiner {
>      typedef void result_type;
>
>      template<typename InputIterator>
>      result_type operator()(InputIterator first,
>                             InputIterator last) const
>      {
>        while (first != last)
>          *first++;
>      }
>    };
> }
>
> I believe this would solve the problem without restricting use of
> default signals to objects with default constructors, or to signals with
> at least one slot connected.

If you don't want to get any results back, just specify the return type of the 
slots as void, e.g., change

  boost::signal<int(int, int)> s;

to

  boost::signal<void(int, int)> s;

        Doug