Re: (off-topic) RE: [Doxygen-users] Documenting IDL

[Hendrik S. <Do...@HS...>]

"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <va...@ru...> wrote:

> or use void* like I ORIGINALLY suggested (and is suggested by looking at 
> how the STL does it with iterators.

  It's easy to confuse this with a pointer to the object 
  taken care of by the smart pointer. 

> [...] 
> >The "the mythical 'logical' type that 'if', 'while' etc use" is not 'bool' - I
> >suppose you could produce a parser that used bool there, but just taking a 
> >straw
> >poll around the office, the guy sitting next to me (working on a C compiler)
> >uses 'long int' for 'if' etc, which is what the Standard says you do 
> >(hence the
> >use of operator int() to feed 'if' in the oldest code). Meanwhile, in my
> [...]

  I'm not so sure about that. But I always thought, since 
  the standard it's 'bool' for C++. (The guy next to you 
  is working on a C compiler, after all. ;^> )

> > >   template<class T>
> > >   class SmartPtr {
> > >     private:
> > >       class Tester {
> > >         void operator delete(void*);
> > >       };
> > >     public:
> > >       operator Tester*() const
> > >       {
> > >         if( !IsValid() )
> > >           return NULL;
> > >         static Tester tester;
> > >         return tester;
> > >       }
> > >       // ...
> > >   };
> [...]
> >Aha, yet another approach :-)
> >
> >The suggestions - _all_ of them - all have their merits and all can all work
> >extremely well, but, just like the search the One True String Class, there 
> >is no
> >absolute best answer to this. Shame really.
> [...]

  So what's the drawback of this one? 

  Schobi