Re: [boost] [unnullable_ptr] Proposal for a new library

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 12:32:15

AMDG

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>> and if I see a failure talking about int
>> when I want a null pointer, my first instinct would be to assume it's
>> an overload or deduction error, and just cast it, at which point it
>> will compile.
>>     
>
> If you cast, you're dropping type safety, so you're on your own.
> A code that performs casting, outside of low-level coding or a few
> idioms like CRTCP, is a bad thing.
>   

??

I don't see how
int* ip = 0;
is less dangerous than
int* ip = static_cast<int*>(0);

The latter is only making what the compiler already does implicitly,
explicit.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe