[boost] Re: [[e-mail]: Re: Formal Review of theSmartContainers library]

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-07 01:59:00

"Bruno Martínez Aguerre" <br1_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:opsfg811mamh9q12_at_yoda...
| > | Second, it's not clear to me what smart
| > |containers add to this particular problem, given that smart pointers
| > |are available.
| >
| > I have used container< shared_ptr<T> > extensively and I still felt that
| > it didn't feel good. All the syntax is different with indirection all
| > over the
| > place
| > and something as simple as vec.push_back( new Foo ) expanding into
| > vec.push_back( shared_ptr<Foo>( new Foo ) )
| > and different cast styles etc.
| >
| > I usually can take such syntax, but I worked and do work with people
| > that are
| > just plain confused by all that syntactic
| > overhead. For them, I think the smart pinter interface is part of the
| > problem.
|
| Why can't you solve this inconvenience with small free functions?  ie:
|
| vector<shared_ptr<int> > v;
| push_back_new(v, new int(8));
| for_each(indirect_begin(v), indirect_end(v), cout << _1);

I guess you could ;-)

Indirection is just one part of the smart containers, though.

br

Thorsten