Re: [boost] Please look at my suggested pimpl library inthe filevault.

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-04 14:44:01

>> These smart_ptr/policy_ptr variations appear all the time. I've decided 
>> to
>> just ignore them. People should be able to find PBSP themselves and know
>> that it's all just another policy.
>
> Is this a backhanded way of saying, "you're wasting your time
> because we'll have a PBSP soon and it will do everything?"  Even

You got it.

> if we do get a PBSP sometime soon, it still needs policies to
> provide the desired behavior.  Then, you need some way of
> packaging it nicely for this purpose.  Otherwise, you create an
> uglier wart that's harder to use.  IOW, even with a PBSP, you'd
> probably want at least a header with the policies and some
> wrapper class or typedefs to make it easier to use.

Yes. Policy implementation and convenience typedef is my choice for the 
solution IMO.

Gennadiy