Larry Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alisdair Meredith wrote: >> Phil Nash wrote: >> > [snip] >> Final disorganised point <g> When you think 'pointer' without a >> context, what concept do you associate first? Resource-manager? Or >> dereferencable? The very name suggests the latter to me! [Which could >> be why I have such a hard time with pointers-that-don't-point] >> > Would the GOF name, proxy, be too non-specific?
Yeah, it means something else in idiomatic C++. For example, std::vector<bool>::reference is a proxy, but it does no resource management. -Dave -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
