Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Emil Dotchevski a écrit :

There is nothing more encapsulating and more abstract than a basic C interface:

struct foo; foo * create_foo( ..... ); void frobnicate( foo * ); void destroy_foo( foo * );

For such interfaces, the most important thing is to physically decouple the user from implementation details. Templates and classes are useless for that.

There are only two benefits of using C++ even for such C-style interfaces:

1) Use exceptions to report errors.

2) Use shared_ptr instead of relying on users to call destroy.

Or better yet, use destructors...