David Abrahams wrote: > "Philippe A. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I would like to propose partial<> when you wish to postpone an >> object's construction: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/shifted_ptr/partial.hpp > > How is this different from the recently-accepted optional<T> class > template?
It would be great also to have a different version of optional<> not having the member optional<>::m_initialized. This way you could take advantage of small alignments (char, short) without rounding it back to a 'bool' (equivalent to the default machine word I think ~ int). Philippe A. Bouchard _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost