Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] enable_shared_from_this_light

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-12 12:07:56

Frank Mori Hess:

> I'd say go with the 1.35-like implementation.  I think using 
> sp_accept_owner is preferable to shared_from_this in constructors, due to 
> the exception concerns I posted about earlier:

> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/173097

So you suggest we throw your improved implementation away? :-) This doesn't 
seem right to me, as it represents a fair amount of knowledge that will be 
lost. Maybe we need to move it somewhere, to 
boost/smart_ptr/esft_constructor_base.hpp, for instance? And link it from 
the docs.