"Howard Hinnant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > > By and large, I believe "smart pointers to arrays" are an oxymoron and > > should not be supported. > > Why?
The reasons are explained in MC++D. Here's my take: 1. Arrays of polymorphic objects don't work. 2. If I wanna arrays of monomorphic objects I can use std::vector. 3. If I wanna arrays of monomorphic objects and std::vector's performance is unsatisfactory to me, I can use the typed buffers (http://www.moderncppdesign.com/publications/cuj-08-2001.html, http://www.moderncppdesign.com/publications/cuj-10-2001.html, http://www.moderncppdesign.com/publications/cuj-12-2001.html) that are present in the up-and-coming YASLI. 4. So there's no reason I'd ever wanna have smart pointers to arrays. Andrei _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
