Peter Dimov wrote:
Because I haven't written the doc yet. :-)
;-))) I was assuming this was some sort of old code I was reading, because it is the most straight forward version of a smart pointer I could think of. Well... it seems to be (part of) the future then.
typedefing std::auto_ptr to boost::single_ptr? What would the purpose, assuming that you can typedef a template?
Having everything in one namespace with a uniform naming scheme... auto_ptr doesn't say much, does it?
notifying_ptr Yes, this might be useful. It requires the ability to enumerate all pointers to a given object, which the current implementation doesn't provide. I'm not yet sure whether this should be "left to the reader" or be a part of the library.
No, no ;) Very much of boost as well as stl is very short "trivial" code with only one purpose: Make it a standard everybody should at least have heard of. And I don't think this one is soooo easy to do as a simple "reader"; I guess a good implementation would use bind so it does not have to send some generic "notify" message. I wouldn't even know if I sould store the vector<notifying_ptr> in the object pointed to (maybe as a superclass) or in an extra object (which should could be a major performance impact). Maybe this discussion should move to the developer list, but that one is to busy for me ;-) Regards