Miroslav Silovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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SMTL aims to efficiently solve queries like:
a) Which books where written by authors whose last name begins with
B between 1986 and 1994?
b) How many cities with population above 10,000
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Gregory Colvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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I'm generally less afraid of automatic conversions than many others, and
dropped them from auto_ptr, and later from shared_ptr, only under
duress.
I like them for wrapper classes because they make it possible to
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John Torjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Using operator-() and operator*() you use pointer value itself. It is
pretty rare situation when you need it directly and not as part of
abc-def() or *abc constructs. Example of c_str() is irrelevant --- you
can
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John Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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If you can convince most of the people on this list to provide an
automatic
conversion, more power to you. I still maintain that avoiding hard to
diagnose
errors is worth much more than saving 6 characters of
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John Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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The main uses of the library as I see it is to handle two main cases:
1) Where a programmer needs to access an API (whether it be from the OS
or a
3rd party C API) which uses handle-based resource management and
Ross Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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This is easily handled; just use boost::bind(ReleaseDC, hWindow, _1) for
the release function.
In proposed library release functionality is handled by static function,
which is part of trait:
struct win_file_handle {
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Jon Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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For example, on UNIX, to securely create a file, you need to use the
O_CREAT and O_EXCL flags to ensure that nobody else created the file
first and is just waiting for you to write to it so they can read what
you
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David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Example for #1. Windows GDI has hundreds (if not thousands) API
functions.
New versions of Windows introduce new API functions. It doesn't make any
sense to cover it with functional wrapper. MFC tried it and
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John Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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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
