26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
4:33 p.m.
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:uacnl8qsf.fsf@boost-consulting.com...
I had this disagreement with Thorsten in Lillehammer (or was it Oxford?) but he was unimpressed with my arguments. I was wondering what Boost as a whole would think:
My Thesis: the library should support copying and assignment of pointer containers using the usual copy/assignment syntax, rather than only allowing a copy via a clone() function.
In general I agree. Whatever costly it is in some cases where we don't bother about performance it could be convenient . Old principle - C++ programmer knows better - rules. Gennadiy