Re: [boost] Review of a safer memory management approach for

On 4 June 2010 13:33, Bartlett, Roscoe A <rabartl@sandia.gov> wrote:

Is the C++ boost community really ready to throw away OO programming?  That just seems crazy to me.

What do you lose by throwing away OO? Objects for the sake of having objects? RAII is a better OO than OO ever was, since it has a justification for using objects. Here's a list of things that OO is sometimes defined to be: <http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html>. We keep, at least as much as "OO C++" has them, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8. For 4 we have boost::any. We provide 7 through type erasure layers over 3 (using "OO" features). We drop 9, but it's a restriction, not a feature. So what's the big deal?