On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:03 +0300, Peter Dimov wrote:
Not really. I just think that you're currently contributing in the wrong area. We need to flesh out the specifications of the changes we are proposing. And with regards to the implementation, you could for example contrubute boost/make_shared.hpp (including documentation and tests), which is already accepted and (I hope) stable and really needs to be in 1.36.
I'm not sure that it's a good idea if I start something completely new at this point. I also have another idea I'm working on (Boost.Operators v2) and my time is not unlimited.
I think that if we adopt the approach of turning enable_shared_from_this into a non-template class and make shared_from_this a free function, there would no longer be any need for a virtual dtor.
Yes, that's true. I view this as a separate proposal though since tying two more or less independent changes together increases the likelihood of both being rejected.
OK, to help with the current enable_shared_from_this, may I suggest that I add some of the implementation variants to the sandbox <https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/libs/smart_ptr> just for further reference and try to turn the current implementation into a more reference-like version like the one from my previous post? Regards, Daniel