Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> A little digression: instead of our current os:: namespace, wouldn't
>> it be better to have a hierarchy of os_foo classes with static
>> methods, so that some environment could inherit others (like cygwin =
>> unix + some stuff). The some of the code from this init method could
>> be moved to os_foo.C files.
>
| You can't have static virtual member functions, but you could have either
| a "class os" (à la 13x) or a "namespace os" (à la 14x) that hid the
| implementation:
>
| class os {
| public:
| static void init(int argc, char * argv[]);
>
| static string const & binpath();
| static string const & binname();
| static string const & homepath();
| static string const & nulldev();
| private:
| struct impl {
| virtual string const & binpath() const = 0;
| virtual string const & binname() const = 0;
| virtual string const & homepath() const = 0;
| virtual string const & nulldev() const = 0;
| };
| static boost::scoped_ptr<impl> pimpl_;
| };
Will this work? Remember that you can call a static function without
the object.
(Ok I see what you want to do. (init should be private probably))
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Lgb
