Re: [Opensg-core] Weak pointer usage and documentation

[Marcus L. <ma...@ya...>]

Dirk Reiners wrote:
> Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>   
>> Allen Bierbaum wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all:
>>>
>>> I am just starting to play with the new WeakPtr types in OpenSG.  Very nice.
>>>
>>> I have one suggestion for the documentation.  I think we should
>>> recommend a usage idiom for people to only use WeakPtr's if they have
>>> first been converted to Rec/Ref Ptrs.  This would be similar to the
>>> recommended usage of boost weak pointers.
>>> (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/smart_ptr/weak_ptr.htm)
>>>   
>>>       
>> +1.
>>     
>
> Can we enforce this by not having conversions for weak pointers or is that too 
> much of a hassle?
>   
It seems to be the best way. You could always .get() it to a raw ptr if 
you knew you had a reference-chain to it.

Cheers,
/Marcus