Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Apologies for the off-topic nature, but you're the best C++ programmers I
| know ;-)
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| Boost has shared_ptr and shared_c_ptr and scoped_ptr but no scoped_c_ptr
| which leads to the thought that actually all these are the same, save for the
| function they call in their d-tor.
the shared_c_ptr is not boost's it is ours.
| So why don't they parameterise that function? You could imagine this
| parameterised scoped_ptr calling some arbitrary function as it goes out of
| scope. Fantastic, for example, if I'm using c-style structs that contain
| pointers themselves and that have been malloc-ed into existence.
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| I wrote a small piece of example code that does this. Attached.
>
| Question is, am I being daft, or should I send my inspiration to boost ;-)
they have been discussing this up and down for the last year.
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Lgb
