Re: pointers and references to automatic variables :( how to do a good builder pattern implementation?

From:
Mathias Gaunard <loufoque@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:21:34 CST
Message-ID:
<bcd64d27-551c-4347-a801-7421a46572b2@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>
On 30 juil, 22:51, Diego Martins <jose.di...@gmail.com> wrote:

void whateverUB()
{
    MyInterface * blah;
    if( some computation ) {
       MyDerived1 a(parameters depending of computation);
       blah = &a;
    } else {
       other computation
       MyDerived2 b(other parameters depending of other computation);
       blah = &b;
    }

    blah->execute();

}


You do not need to use dynamic memory allocation.

const MyInterface& blah = some_compution ? MyDerived1(parameters) :
MyDerived2(parameters);
blah.execute();

Other possibility, but that requires copying, since variant doesn't
have in-place construction at the moment:

template<typename Base>
struct get_base : boost::static_visitor<Base&>
{
     template<typename T>
     Base& operator()(T& t) const
     {
          return t;
     }
};

boost::optional< boost::variant<MyDerived1, MyDerived2> > output;
if(some_computation)
{
     output = boost::in_place(MyDerived1(parameters depending of
computation));
}
else
{
     other computation;
     output = boost::in_place(MyDerived2(other parameters depending of
other computation));
}

MyInterface& blah = boost::apply_visitor(get_base<MyInterface>(),
*output);
blah.execute();

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