From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-26 11:33:23
"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:uacnl8qsf.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
>
> I had this disagreement with Thorsten in Lillehammer (or was it
> Oxford?) but he was unimpressed with my arguments. I was wondering
> what Boost as a whole would think:
>
> My Thesis: the library should support copying and assignment of
> pointer containers using the usual copy/assignment syntax, rather
> than only allowing a copy via a clone() function.
In general I agree. Whatever costly it is in some cases where we don't
bother about performance it could be convenient . Old principle - C++
programmer knows better - rules.
Gennadiy