On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 11:21:17 UTC, Manu wrote:
RC is okay-ish in C++11 (with rval references), although it
could be
much better, for instance, the type mangling/wrapping induced
by this
sort of library solution always leads to awkward situations, ie,
'this' pointer in a method is not an RC object anymore! Methods
can't
give out pointers to themselves (ie, signaling events where it's
conventional to pass a 'sender' to the subscribers). Pretty
massive
fail!
Did you look into doing something like
std::enable_shared_from_this? I use it pretty routinely in
networking code (boost.asio), and while it is not as pretty as it
could be, it does the trick.
– David
