From: Sam Partington (Sam.Partington_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-27 12:04:10
Could it not just be called shared. After all it is merely a more general
term of shared_ptr. And the type of the resource kind of makes it implicit.
e.g.
shared<file> is a shared file. crystal.
Though this doesn't fit at all with non sharing policies.
Sam
Alisdair Meredith wrote:
> Larry Evans wrote:
>
>> Would the GOF name, proxy, be too non-specific? Policy names might
>> provide the specifics (whether it's a pointer or a resource).
>
> Proxy, if anything, sends the wrong message to me. The name suggests
> 'reference', rather then 'owner'
>
> 'bookkeeper' is the best I can come up with so far, but that is a very
> odd word to type <g> and still too long.