"Howard Hinnant" <hinnant@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message news:197E7641-1CA8-11D9-92A6-003065D18932@twcny.rr.com...
On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:56 PM, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Buy Metrowerks Pro 9 and you will see it. :-)
For some reason I thought it used parts of the Boost code base. I gather I was wrong?
I implemented it from the TR1 spec.
Don't get me wrong -- I knew you could do it yourself ;-)
Peter Dimov was a tremendous help though (jeeze that guy is smart! :-) ). And as Peter recently pointed out:
But legalese aside, the most important part of the implementation are the tests, anyway. ;-)
I'd agree 100%, but without the smiley. The shared_ptr/weak_ptr spec implies some of the most subtle code I've ever tried to implement.
I'm surprised -- but I probably shouldn't be. To be honest, I haven't used weak pointers since I programmed in Java. Each time I've thought I needed weak_ptr I've always ended up adopting some other solution. But now you have me very intrigued.
-Howard
Jonathan