On Jul 3, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Mostafa wrote:
Hi all,
Shouldn't the remove_pointer doc [tinyurl.com/336cmlp] under type_traits library make mention of and link to the pointee doc [http://tinyurl.com/339n3f4]?
Nope. The latter is not really related. type_traits deal with basics of the C++ type system, like pointers. pointee deals with a higher-level idea that includes smart pointers and iterators.
(I must say that I've been wholly ignorant of the latter in the couple of years that I've been using boost, since I always expected it to be under type_traits.) Additionally, it would be great if it was explained why it's not part of the type_traits library, since, at least I believe, it's not very obvious.
See above. If you can suggest specific wording changes to the docs that would clarify this stuff, I'd appreciate it.
One last question, why is pointee under the iterator library docs, when it also deals with shared_ptrs? Shouldn't it fall under the utility doc? (The iterator doc would be the last place I would look if I wanted to find something on shared_ptrs.)
Maybe, but it was built as part of the implementation of indirect_iterator, so that's where it ended up. -- David Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://boostpro.com