Inline. "John Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I fail to see how COM is a relevant analogy. The smart_handle classes I've > proposed will work on all major platforms unlike COM. Several people have
COM was available on all major platforms. I still remember running it on Solaris and HP-UX (?) long time ago. > already suggested that it would be worthwhile for FILE*s and file descriptors. I am not in position to judge their reasons --- I never had this need. Maybe I avoided their specific problems somehow. Or these problems are not frequent enough. Anyway, I can speak only for myself. And I am not convinced yet. :-) > >Usually solution and problem go in pair. And problem goes before solution. > >In this case solution is our response to problem. Well, your comment tells > >me that we have a solution in search of a problem. Not that there's anything > >wrong with that. > > See point above. Hmm. I expected that _you_ will tell in your proposal something like that: "There is this huge set of problems. These are specific examples majority of programmers are struggling with frequently. (Stone cold facts and examples). And this is how I propose to change our hard life to the better. (Solution)." :-) Something like that. Instead you proposed solution without proofs of problem. I guess I had wrong expectations. > Automatic conversions are well known sources of hard to find bugs. Six In all cases? Well, programming itself is well known source of hard to find bugs. :-) I don't think that this is valid argument in this particular case. > characters hardly seems like a big deal. And still nobody uses auto_ptr like this: p.get()->XXX(). :-) If we can simplify our life, we should. If we can save 1 character in frequently used idiom, we should. > >Isn't it an overkill to use reference counting to put handles in vector? Is > >it the best solution for such problem? :-) > > Not necessarily. Please suggest another. I have some ideas how to deal with this problem. But all of them fall outside of discussion about smart handles. Thanks, Eugene _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
