Re: [boost] FW: Suggestion for boost`s smart pointers

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-03 11:32:45

At 5:12 PM -0800 12/1/06, Sohail Somani wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>>  [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Howard Hinnant
>
>>  > I wouldn't really need the extra indirection that seems to
>>  be implied
>>  > there but that's a step in the right direction.
>>
>>  <nod> Agreed.  The indirection is in there really only because you 
>>  said "C".  The deleter type can easily be a C++ class type which can 
>>  then do anything you want.
>
>Yes, it turns out I read your code wrong. I was thinking that was the
>signature for a something that would construct a tr1::function
>eventually.

A library that I use for Mac OS programming (Nitrogen 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitric>) uses exactly this idiom - 
two classes named "Owned" (which implements auto_ptr semantics) and 
"Disposer".

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