Re: [boost] [thread] Questions about TSS

From: Andrey Semashev (andysem_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-05 11:59:48

Peter Dimov wrote:
> Andrey Semashev:
> 
>> Peter Dimov wrote:
> ....
> 
>> There is no specific reason for that. That feature would just follow
>> from the interface if thread_specific_ptr was consistent with shared_ptr.
> 
> But it's not (semantically) consistent with shared_ptr at all. Making it 
> syntactically consistent will just mislead more people. One could even argue 
> that it needs to be made even less syntactically consistent with a smart 
> pointer than it is now, because it's not like other smart pointers at all. 
> Depending on how one looks at it, it represents either a TSD key or an 
> auto_ptr with a thread-local storage class.

Agreed. And I for one would personally prefer to see a
thread_specific_value instead of thread_specific_ptr in this case. But
since we have a pointer here, I would like it to behave as a pointer.
And if it has a feature that is similar to other well known pointers, I
would like the feature to have a similar way of use. But that's my HO,
after all.