Re: [boost] safe bool operator

Subject: Re: [boost] safe bool operator
From: Domagoj Saric (domagoj.saric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-05 03:18:16

"Joel Falcou" <joel.falcou_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:4B8FAD36.1020500_at_lri.fr...
> User testimonial: in my own boost absed library when i have a pointer like 
> class and i want the safe bool conversion, I make it so my members are named 
> in such a way tha including the shared_ptr safe_bool header is all I need. 
> Never had any problem

Isn't that actually yet another 'pointer' that a clean, public, reusable utility 
component is needed for this 'age old' idiom?

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