[boost] Re: [congif] BOOST_BEFRIEND_TEMPLATE, BOOST_PRIVATE

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-05 10:45:37

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>>>          BOOST_BEFRIEND_TEMPLATE(shared_ptr, Y, 1)
>>>          BOOST_BEFRIEND_TEMPLATE(weak_ptr, Y, 1)
>>>          T * px;                     // contained pointer
>>>          detail::shared_count pn;    // reference counter
>>
>> This doesn't look any better to me than the original, sorry. ;-)
>
> I agree with Peter.  In fact, to me it looks significantly worse.

Well, there's no accounting for taste. ;-) I use similar macros a lot in the
Preboost Interfaces library.

Jonathan