On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 10:16:17 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 29/08/13 08:45, monarch_dodra wrote:
Yes, that'd be the idea, but I mean that if you do that, you
close the door to
giving straight access to a struct-implementation.
Understood, but I'm not sure that's as big an issue as you
think. I exchanged some private emails with Manu and with Adam
Ruppe, on how RNGs-as-final-classes might play with games or
embedded programming, and I think the consensus was that it
wasn't a big deal, so long as all the allocation happened up
front.
Alright. Nice to now.
Adam suggested that e.g. one could avoid GC by allocating
memory and using emplace(), so as long as the class is
compatible with that approach, it's fine.
This is actually much trickier than it looks. Check out "Scoped".
AFAIK, it is the only type which does this, and it is not
copyable.
