Re: Managed Code Syntax Swerves from Standard C++
Roger Rabbit wrote:
Last night I wrote a short class to implement reference counted smart
pointers. Not that hard to put together, but I was tired and did not
realize the class would not work in a multithreaded system. No
problem, I liked yesterdays architecture, it works so why muck with
it. All that was really wrong was the counter could be impugned by
threads. So today I wrote a proxy class to replace the extant class
and simply dropped my new abstraction for a long into the code. No
problem until I went to compile.
ostream& operator<<(ostream& os) { os << pointee; }
Why does using managed code force me to remove "friend" from my
declaration.
T* operator->() { return pointee; }
Why can't I explicitly declare this to be a "const"?
Because the CLR supports neither friend nor const memer function qualifiers.
It's not the same world, it doesn't have the same rules.
I am using standard C++ or so I though, can't calling windows for
implementing a LockProxy behave like other classes?
Sure, just don't make it managed code.
-cd
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