Re: [boost] safe bool operator

Subject: Re: [boost] safe bool operator
From: Domagoj Saric (domagoj.saric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-04 07:41:26

"Jeffrey Hellrung" <jhellrung_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:4B8F777C.6000202_at_ucla.edu...
> I don't think the requirement for operator! is so bad (should certainly 
> satisfy the majority of use cases, right?),

FWIW I don't remember writing one, ever... ;)

> and perhaps efficiency can be addressed by defining the 
> "unspecified_bool_type" conversion in debug builds and a straight bool 
> conversion in release builds for "problem" compilers...?  Or perhaps some 
> other preprocessor macro can direct whether to go with the type-safe version 
> (default) or the efficient version (which may in fact be the same for some 
> compilers)...?

But there is no need for any of that...shared_ptr already has an efficient 
implementation...
I just wrapped this implementation along with one of my one (that is perhaps 
slightly less 'clean' but easier on the optimizer) into a 'reusable' solution...

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