
21 Jul
2017
21 Jul
'17
11:44 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
- Why are top layer APIs riddled with templates instead of being hidden behind simplified convenience typedefs and non-template conventional OO class designs instead?
I, for one, am grateful that `boost::shared_ptr` is declared as a class template rather than a class. Thanks