On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Domagoj Saric < domagoj.saric@littleendian.com> wrote:
User testimonial: in my own boost absed library when i have a pointer
"Joel Falcou" <joel.falcou@lri.fr> wrote in message news:4B8FAD36.1020500@lri.fr... like
class and i want the safe bool conversion, I make it so my members are named in such a way tha including the shared_ptr safe_bool header is all I need. Never had any problem
Isn't that actually yet another 'pointer' that a clean, public, reusable utility component is needed for this 'age old' idiom?
Yes, it is more supporting data that we need a reusable bool conversion mechanism. I am finding that I need this in Boost.Range (since the implementation in here is sub-optimal). I am also finding in my other application development that a general utility for providing such a mechanism would be extremely useful. I intend to develop such a reusable Boost-ified macro and get it into the core of Boost. Any objections, or comments? Regards, Neil Groves