Re: [boost] [ Interest? ] [ out_ptr ] Tiny C++ Abstraction for C-Style Output Pointers

Subject: Re: [boost] [ Interest? ] [ out_ptr ] Tiny C++ Abstraction for C-Style Output Pointers
From: ThePhD (phdofthehouse_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-03 02:42:43

Dear Bjorn,

     This does not have any other use case than C and COM-Style API
interoperability: both `out_ptr` and `inout_ptr` and streamlined interfaces
purely for this purpose and to make writing against such APIs more
pleasant, more performant, and (most of all) more developer-time scale-able
than alternative approaches such as wrapping all such initialization-style
functions in C++-isms.

Sincerely,
JeanHeyd

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Bjorn Reese via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> On 06/28/18 21:03, ThePhD via Boost wrote:
>
>       out_ptr is a small abstraction for making types such as
>> std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr, boost::shared_ptr, and the upcoming
>> std::retain_ptr
>> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0468r0.html>
>> work
>> work C-Style output functions as a parameter, addressing the need of
>> wanting to be able to do "my_c_api_init( foo, bar, &my_smart_ptr );". It's
>>
>
> Does out_ptr have other use-cases than C interoperability?
>
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