On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:31:02 -0400 David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
DA> I probably should keep smart-aleck questions to myself, but I have to Please don't do that. DA> ask why you're writing your own smart pointers at all? Boost's DA> shared_ptr is pretty damned amazing; all of these little safety issues DA> and design details have been taken care of, and it has an almost DA> astounding ability to handle all kinds of interoperability DA> issues... and of course we have scoped_ptr as well. DA> DA> Naturally, I can't imagine writing an application of the scale of DA> Mahogany without simply adopting Boost as a standard piece of the DA> infrastructure. There are just so many things that work better, DA> faster, smarter when you take advantage of carefully designed DA> libraries. Now Vadim / Robert's discussion has gone through the stratosphere above me. I understand what a pointer is and that is about it but I know sometimes we all like to reinvent the wheel in our own image but there again, maybe Vadim and or Robert don't know about your implementation. DA> DA> OK, enough blowing my (our) own horn, You go right ahead. Nobody is beyond learning new things. I like to hear about new things even if I don't understand them or have an immediate use for them. On that thread, I have visited your site and boost.org and in fact it was bookmarked long before you recently joined us, and I have a question. Being that the oxidation of my past programming skills has nearly proceeded to completion (reduction attempts in progress :-) ), is there a "Boost for dummies" type document so that the likes of I can get some idea of things without having to be a capable C++ / Python programmer? TIA Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
