Re: [Corelinux-develop] Smart pointers.

[Ian C. <co...@st...>]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:

> * Ian Crawford  [Thursday 06 September 2001 09:38 pm ]  :
>    > Ooo... I like that! :) =A0Much more sophisticated than I need, but=
 very
>    > nice.
> It is sophisticated from the Design point of view, but not so from the =
usage point of view
> since you have the default behaviour already plugged in!
> If you need something slightly different, just implement the policy cha=
nge you need and
> that's it! It is Reaaallly neat and lots of fun too.

Yep.  The only thing it doesn't lend itself to is collections.  Without a
common base class, it's difficult (inconvenient, at least) to have a
collection of Smart Pointers whose policies aren't identical.  Obviously
no problem when the policies are the same, but...

Unless there's something I'm missing?

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