Re: [Boost-users] Disabling Tokenizer in Derived Classes - after their constructors have been executed.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Disabling Tokenizer in Derived Classes - after their constructors have been executed.
From: Nathan Ridge (zeratul976_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-03 15:55:32

> I have boost tokenizer and its iterator stored in my base class. The  
> tokenizer got initialized with a const std::string&. I do the  
> tokenization in my base class and provide the iterator, pointing to the  
> first token, to the derived classes - but only to be used in their  
> constructors. After the derived class constructor has been executed,  
> the tokenizer and its iterator should not remain available - what can I  
> do to accomplish that? 

[This is less of a boost issue and more of a general design issue...]

Why do the tokenizer and the iterator need to be in the base class at all?

Why not just construct them on the stack in the derived constructor?

Regards,
Nate