Re: [boost] Re: swappable user defined types and STLport libraries

2003-08-06 Thread Alan Bellingham
pe with later. To the best of my knowledge, the compiler isn't yet being shown - I believe that they're looking at getting the IDE side of things working, and then will bring the compiler along once that's done. >Any volunteers:-?

Re: [boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-19 Thread Alan Bellingham
er discussion is probably off topic, unless we're trying to learn lessons from its design to apply to Boost candidates. Alan -- Alan Bellingham ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] checked_delete without assignment to 0 - why?

2003-05-14 Thread Alan Bellingham
es to a library, we want it to be as efficient as possible consistent with safety. In this case, we rigourously inspect the code (by eye, and by linting) and determine that the line in question actually is unnecessary. Alan -- Alan Bellingham ___ Unsubscribe &a

Re: [boost] Re: smart_ptr vs smart_resource

2003-02-20 Thread Alan Bellingham
ar * ptr = new char [12]; // points to (ergo, refers to) resource char * ptr2 = ptr+4 ; // points _into_ resource Alan -- Alan Bellingham ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] Re: Re: dynamic_void_cast

2002-12-11 Thread Alan Bellingham
Terje Slettebø <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>in this thread, void * is type erasure. More or less the only safe thing you >>>can do with it, is to delete it. You can also cast it back to its original [snip David Abrahams demurral] >Of course, it depends on whether the type supports polymorphic deletio