Re: [gtkmm] "manage" and Glib::RefPtr

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Daniel Bausch wrote:
> You need no refcounting. Refcounting is a feature for programmers who spread 
> pointers all over the program. There's no refcounting in standard C++ because 
> the people who defined the standard are good software developers. I say: 
> Before introducing such a horrible feature, organize your software! The 
> programmer must have real control over the lib, not the lib over the 
> programmer. The lib shall serve the programmer and not make him headaches, 
> why some objects are not destroyed when he wants them to.

As far I can tell even Stroustrup introduces refcounting pointers to 
sanely implement polymorphic containers. He calls it a Handle. So this 
rant against refcounting is plain wrong.

Yours
   Christof