Re: [boost] [Memory Managed Pointer] Review Request

Subject: Re: [boost] [Memory Managed Pointer] Review Request
From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jeremy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-25 16:51:04

On 04/25/2011 12:41 PM, Joel Young wrote:
> Phil Bouchard<philippe<at>  fornux.com>  writes:
>
>> I apologize for all the confusion but I renamed once more the memory
>> manager to mm_ptr.  Its documentation is accessible at:
>> https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/mm_ptr/libs/smart_ptr/doc/index.html
>
> Memory Managed Pointer and mm_ptr for short are much better names.

Arguably mm_ptr is a bit too generic: managed is a rather general term 
that would seem to encompass a wide range of potential strategies, of 
which your library implements just one.  I'm not sure what the best term 
might be, but the "union" behavior does seem to be a key characteristic.