Re: [gtkmm] the future of gtkmm

[Matthew Walton <matthew alledora co uk>]

Paul Grenyer wrote:
> That's good to hear!
>
> I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but if you use smart 
> pointersthen you don't need to worry about "clean up properly" as the 
> RAII takes care of it for you. Also, if you've missed anywhere you 
> should be catching exceptions then there is a potential for a leak.
>
> As for waiting for other people to learn proper c++, don't get me 
> started!

I'm encouraged though - my line manager, who's the head of the 
development team, is increasingly looking at me and saying 'what's the 
C++y way to do this?'

Usually it's something involving polymorphism, virtual method dispatch 
and/or templates, none of which he really understands yet. Working on 
it, although I'm not entirely sure I understand templates yet. They're 
more complicated than they look at first sight.

Between that and various developers (and the CEO) wanting my help with 
Perl on a regular basis, it's getting difficult to get any work done :-)

Somehow I think it's too early to sell anyone on smartpointers though.