Dave Abrahams wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:32 AM [GMT+1=CET], > Daniel Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Premature flexibility is the root of all evil" > > > > Stone me, Andrei :o) > > I don't think it's premature. There's certainly plenty of evidence by now > that people want a variety of different smart pointers
I know. And I agree. Sentences like the above are provoking by their nature, but still hold some truth. In the end, it's all a trade-off and I am not sure how far we can extend flexibility. It has some cost (might be smaller if template-typedefs are available) and I think it would be a horror to create and even more to maintain a boostified version of Andrei's PBSP. Boost is becoming a blackbox with lot's of magic inside, PBSP might suffer the same problem. People (including me) seem to prefer things that not only just work, but which can also be fixed if they don't work. This is why I like open-source so much, but boost is giving me some headaches like is_class. I was also a bit shocked when I found out that boost's smart-pointer add ~36 bytes to my objects if I use intrusive-counting - which is not acceptable for me. This was a motivation to start my own little library where I can understand the code. It helped me to understand the things I wasn't able to understand from looking at the boost code. I haven't published it yet for several reasons including missing documentation, missing tests for at least some important platforms/compilers, and last but not least I'm not sure if it would be fair to boost. OTOH, it might help others to learn more about C++ (I learned a lot from boost, but it's getting harder with every new release). To sum it up: I believe boost is becoming a blackbox and that worries me. > I still have some questions which haven't been satisfied about how to get > there, of course... Andrei has done a lot of good things not just by creating them, but also by writing a book about it. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Frey aixigo AG - financial training, research and technology Schloß-Rahe-Straße 15, 52072 Aachen, Germany fon: +49 (0)241 936737-42, fax: +49 (0)241 936737-99 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.aixigo.de _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
