"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes:
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message
|I've heard the term "pointainer" somewhere. Not that I like it or |anything.
I agree, its not that good.
| I believe "indirect" is superior -- I am assuming containers of | dereferenceable types other than pointers (like iterators) are also | supported.
Curently they are not, unless the iterator happens to be a pointer.
The trouble in that case would be that my implementation used void* underneith and hence has special iterators that does a reinterpret_cast.
Aside: Why reinterpret_cast? Surely static_cast would be a more restrictive and less alarming choice.
A reinterpret_cast appears here and there in the container's implmentation too.
You just need specializations for pointers that do that casting trick, and a generalized template that doesn't.
So given that iterators in general are not supported, would you then prefer the ptr_ prefix?
No; I'd prefer if you planned to phase in support for dereferenceable types in general. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com