Re: [Boost-users] Dynamically creating new units

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Ray Burkholder wrote:

I think this falls under the PIMPL idiom, which is described by Herb Sutter at:

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill04.htm http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill05.htm

Quite frankly, I don't see much point in using the PIMPL idiom. I'd much rather use: struct widget; shared_ptr<widget> make_widget(); void frobnicate( widget & ); Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode