On Aug 12, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Soares Chen Ruo Fei <crf@hypershell.org> wrote:
What is your rationale for that? What precedent is there for a wrapper/adapter/facade that behaves like a pointer to the wrapped object? I'm not aware of any precedents; this is a new pattern to me. Why have you chosen to do this, rather than providing an accessor member like impl()?
Let's just say it's purely syntactic taste that I think can make ease of the transition without too much confusion. But since the method is just consist of a few lines of code why don't we just have a democratic vote on whether to keep operator *()?
Not a vote.
Actually I can't find any precedents that use this pattern as well, so I'm not sure whether it is a new pattern.
IIUC Vladimir Batov's Pimpl library works much like this. I don't know if it makes sense here, but you might want to take a look.