From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-27 09:32:15
Joel de Guzman wrote:
>
> And BTW, why do people call it Peter's idiom.
Because it is?
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:listarchives.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg13128.php
Note the date. Also note that the archives are brain dead and the non-cached
link points to a different message. There is no history on the Web.
> AFAIK, it was Daveed Vandevoorde who first suggested the trick.
Daveed Vandevoorde first suggested that a pointer to a data member would be
more efficient.