Tom Widmer wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:11:54 +0200, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote:
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
David,
I'm in full support of your effort. Just a small comment:
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { window w = create_window(); w->title("Example window");
why is window implicitly a pointer?
What alternatives do you have in mind?
window_ptr w = create_window(); or shared_ptr<window> w = create_window();
Is the former too Hungarian?
<shrug> I don't need the _ptr suffix to repeatedly remind me that a type is a pointer (I can remember _that_ much), but I don't actively hate it either; it's just dead weight. (Hungarian is 'window pw = create_window()', and I use that fairly often.) I like shared_ptr<window>, but the Real World(tm) will just invent their own typedefs. It's too much typing and it takes away the illusion that the actual pointer type is "abstracted out".