On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:35, axter wrote:
"Preston A. Elder" <prez@neuromancy.net> wrote in message news:<dp8ak1$u33$1@sea.gmane.org>...
Hey,
What does everyone think of a new smart pointer called deep_ptr.
Last year we released a reactor framework that uses a smart-pointer based on Andrei Alexandrescu's ideas. The reactor and the smart-pointer are released under the same license as ACE. http://www.weirdsolutions.com/developersCentral/tools/ace_additions.txt http://www.weirdsolutions.com/developersCentral/tools/ace_additions.tar.bz2
From the docs:
"The smart pointer, which is quite core to the reactor itself, is a relatively orthogonal set of classes that allow you to declare at compile-time smart pointers having specific sets of characteristics." There's a lock policy (object/method/none), an ownership policy (owned/not), and deep copy policies (ctor/clone()). I would submit this for inclusion into Boost but I'm a bit too busy to change the code to meet the requirements. But if anyone finds any of this interesting, we'd like to see the code get used. The smart pointer doesn't inherently require ACE, but the type of mutex we use is based on an ACE mutex. The reactor requires ACE, but only as an interface (if I recall correctly), which allows it to be used in the existing ACE framework. I think the reactor could be easily stripped of the ACE requirement. Bud Millwood Weird Solutions, Inc. http://www.weird-solutions.com tel: +46 8 758 3700 fax: +46 8 758 3687