From -4260813477212843984 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,574518e5c7a60feb X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: public@marlowa.plus.com (Andrew Marlow) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Revised Allocator Proposal Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:49:46 GMT Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) Lines: 18 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <7ibbe1hu4omoqsfibanas46idf9u6i5hjo@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1125341397 29238 158.152.254.254 (29 Aug 2005 18:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:49:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j7TInkdk026237; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:49:46 +1000 (EST) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1971 On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:16:11 -0600, Pablo Halpern wrote: > I want to thank everybody for their feedback on my proposal. > Today I posted a second revision at > http://home.earthlink.net/~phalpern/cpp/HalpernAllocatorProposal.pdf. I > also formally submitted it to the Library WG for consideration in the > meeting next month. It is not clear to me exactly why wherever you have an allocator parameter it tends to be a pointer rather than a reference. Why is that please? Will the proposal specify what the behaviour is when the pointer is null? --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]