On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 20:52 America/Denver, Ross Smith wrote:
On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:46, Gregory Colvin wrote:On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 17:16 America/Denver, Ross Smith wrote: ...
(Of course all of these could easily be unified into a single policy-based type; unfortunately the Powers That Be seem to have decided that policies are too complicated for us mere mortals to be trusted with.)
There are no Powers That Be. Boost has no policy-based smart pointers because nobody has done the difficult job of proposing them.
Now that is simply a barefaced lie. I proposed one myself, which got roundly ignored, and there have been several others.
Excuse me. By "propose" I meant a formal proposal, not just a posting.
There have been many postings and much discussion pro and con policy- based smart pointers, but no formal proposal. Only if such a proposal were turned down would it be fair to say that Boost as such had made any decision, let alone to speculate on the motivation for such a decision. My bet is that such a proposal would succeed, but would have to be of very high quality to meet Boost's critical standards and do justice to the inherent difficulty of the problem space.
I hope that someday soon someone will volunteer such a proposal, but in the meantime, I think John's handles are a very good idea.
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