"Paul Mensonides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: >> David Abrahams wrote: >> > Here's an example I just cooked up of using the PP lib to solve a >> > classic C++ OO problem: repeated boilerplate in the definition of >> > Pimpl classes. >> >> There is another variation of the idiom, sometimes called >> "hidden state", which doesn't have the shortcoming in the first place: > > Dave, do you still think this would be a good example to add to the > docs?
Well, yeah. I don't understand how Aleksey's idiom accomplishes the same things as pimpl (yet). I need to be able to plug in different runtime-polymorphic implementations behind the handle classes I'm defining. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost