"Dave Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 063401c2cd44$28ece840$7901a8c0@penguin">news:063401c2cd44$28ece840$7901a8c0@penguin... > On Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:00 PM [GMT+1=CET], > David B. Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > Type generators are overkill, since unlike with iterator adaptors > > > there's no need to preserve type identity. Normal inheritance will > > > work just fine. > > > > That's a good point. Do you think public inheritance is ok, or > > should private be used? > > If you think about it briefly, you'll see that private inheritance would > defeat the whole purpose ;-)
Do you mean because you would have to replicate the entire smart_ptr interface? Ah. Then there would be no point to calling it smart_ptr. You would just create a custom smart_ptr each time. Yes, I guess that would defeat the whole purpose. Dave _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
