Cliff Taylor wrote:
If I remember correctly, Java purposely doesn't give you access to the base addresses its references point to. At least, I can't think of an easy way to access them. This is all in the name of safe garbage collection and "data hiding", which ref_ptr<>::get() feels like it's breaking, at least to me. Shouldn't we let ref_ptr<> do it's job and not mess with its internal structures, for the same reason we shouldn't call ref() and unref() on osg::Referenced family objects?
One thing to remember is that garbage collection (as in Java) is different than managed pointers. The first is a full solution, the second is a nice helper. For example, Java handles circular references, doesn't require "buy in" by all containing classes, etc.. ref_ptr doesn't have this luxury so it is frequently necessary to work around it.
In light of that, it would be impossible to get rid of get(). -Paul (a different Paul. ;)) _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
