[C++-sig] Re: discard reference

[David Abrahams]

"Mike Rovner" <mike at nospam.com> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Mike Rovner" <mike at nospam.com> writes:
>>> Wrapper signature is (_1, ap<A*>)
>>> and I'm calling with AA* (or ap<AA> - doesn't work either).
>>>
>>> And if I set wrapper as (_1, ap<AA*>) I'll loose ability to polimorf
>>> derived classes
>>> and will have to write wrappers for each derived class individually
>>> which is inelegant.
>>
>> Oh, I completely overlooked that.  Do you really intend to use
>> auto_ptr<A*>?  Those point at A* objects, not at A objects.
>
> Oh, sorry. It's just mistyping of auto_ptr<A>. (I'm not used to auto_ptr
> yet.)
> Everywhere in the code there are auto_ptr<A>.
>
> So I'm trying to invent some kind of automatic auto_ptr argument processing
> policy: release_auto_ptr_policy
>       .def("X", (void)(*X)(auto_ptr(A))&X, release_auto_ptr_policy)
> which will call X with released A*, e.g.
>      Auto_X_wrapper(auto_ptr<A> ap) { X(ap.get()); ap.release(); }
>
> What do you think? I even tryed to look into implementation, but get lost.
> :(

I think we'll want something like this eventually, anyway.  Luabind
can do that and the langbinding integration will produce the result
you want.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "_1" above, but I think you can
get the polymorphism you want (laboriously) by using

  implicitly_convertible<std::auto_ptr<Derived>,std::auto_ptr<Base> >();

for all the appropriate Derived classes.

HTH,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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