[Please note new subject line becasue of the POLA discussion] On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW, I had at least once considered interior pointers to structures > nested in the object as potentially more POLA friendly than passing a > this pointer as an alternative to distinct object types which might > have a mincing effect. > that style would certainly seem to increase interior pointer numbers... Can you explain how interior pointers help provide POLA? It's hard for me to imagine how they are useful for this in the absence of an (unsafe) function that lets you recover the exterior object reference for use in the functions that implement your object. Also, what POLA constraint were you trying to achieve? It might be worth trying to understand what was missing in the language that pushed you to "perverse" solutions. -) shap
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