>From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Terje Slettebų <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I understand you (Johan) want to be able to have generic factories, but then > > erasing the type is probably not the way to go, and as has been pointed out > > in this thread, void * is type erasure. More or less the only safe thing you > > can do with it, is to delete it. > > Not even that, usually.
Of course, it depends on whether the type supports polymorphic deletion, and whether or not it's an array (so you would need delete[]), but are there other issues besides this? I assumed that if types were used in this way, then at least the above was known. Regards, Terje _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
