[boost] Re: Re: Re: [Formal review] Singleton library

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-10 16:41:29

"Jason Hise" wrote:

>>>>>>1. Creator policy is redundant with the standard Allocator concept
[snip]

> Additionally, I feel that it is important that creators be easy for client 
> code to write when necessary.  The current interface required for a 
> singleton creator is, IMO, much simpler to meet than the interface for a 
> standard allocator.  Being able to write a creator makes it easy to wrap 
> other existing libraries with singletons relatively quickly.
>

We are stuck with std::allocators and there's no realistic hope
they will change/disappear.

So people will code against them, even when
it is suboptimal solution.

/Pavel