[C++-sig] Re: Allocating objects on the heap by default.

[Nicodemus]

David Abrahams wrote:

>Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in> writes:
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>>    DA> If Pyste wants to supply auto_ptr and shared_ptr objects so
>>    DA> that
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>>    DA>         A.held_by(auto_ptr)
>>    DA> or
>>    DA>         A.held_by(shared_ptr)
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>>Hmm, I am not sure if the A.held_by approach is easy to do
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>What could be hard about it?
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Because there is an ambiguity here, since you can acess the members of a 
class with the same syntax:

exclude(A.foo)  # exclude the foo member
exclude(A.held_by) # exclude the held_by member

Plus, all other options use the function syntax.

Cheers,
Nicodemus.