Re: [Boost-users] [signals] connection::add_tracked() proposal

From: Timmo Stange (ts_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-21 17:12:54

Frank Mori Hess wrote:

>> A user can already have loosely related pointers tracked by using
>> a specialized function object and overloading visit_each. Giving
>> too many alternative ways to achieve the same goal may confuse
>> more than it helps.
> 
> I disagree.  By that logic, providing boost::bind is a mistake, because the 
> user could just as well create a specialized function object in order to 
> connect a slot which doesn't exactly match the signal's signature.

Hm, ok, I see boost::bind a little differently, but as you mention it, I
would prefer such an approach above a member function (a tracked object
binder).

Regards

Timmo Stange