on 03.05.2010 at 20:34 Chad Nelson wrote :
On 05/03/2010 10:54 AM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
I would suggest moving the memory management up (or down, depending on how you view things) to the derived classes. How feasible is that? You can use CRTP to get access to the derived class's members.
It's not really feasible to push it to the derived classes, since it would involve a lot of duplicate code. The memory management is almost completely identical between all of the integer types, so it makes more sense to have it in a base class.
However, as I mentioned yesterday, I've found a need to separate the memory management functions from the base class anyway. I plan to move them into an intermediary class, something that inherits from base_integer, and that all the derived classes inherit from.
how about making derived classes to call base class' protected methods to initialize the storage? -- Pavel P.S. if you notice a grammar mistake or weird phrasing in my message please point it out