[openbeos] Re: Coding Suggestion -- Templates, Iterators

  • From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 01:05:09 -0400

You are confusing STL with templates.
Templates in and of themselves are perfectly type safe.
STL is a whole different issue. 

>>Not to start a flame war, but I heard templates had threadsafety 
>problems.
>
>All depends on how they're implemented.  I understand that SGI's 
>implementation has some thread-safety issues; I'd like to see OpenBeOS 
>use/ship with STLPort which is getting to be pretty well known for its 
>robustness -- including thread-safety.
>
>e
>
>>Btw, the only thing in NPlay that uses an template (the list of 
>available
>>renderers, a templatized BList), I had to comment out the delete 
>fRendererList; 
>>because it crashed everytime... so I'd say my experience with templates 
>is 
>>quite short :))
>>
>>François.
>
>Data is not information, and information is not knowledge: knowledge is 
>not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom.
>       - Philip Adams
>
>
>

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