[thread] thread_specific_ptr::element_type ?

[gmsb]

Would the following patch be useful?


--- /boost_1_33_1/boost/thread/tss.hpp  2007-03-23 12:21:33.000000000 +0000
+++ /boost_1_33_1/boost/thread/tss.hpp.patched  2007-03-23 12:21:20.000000000 +0000
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
 class thread_specific_ptr : private noncopyable
 {
 public:
+    typedef T element_type;
+
     thread_specific_ptr()
         : m_tss(new boost::function1<void, void*>(
                     boost::detail::tss_adapter<T>(

[Steven Watanabe]

I think this would be useful, because it would allow Boost.Lambda to deduce the result of dereferencing a thread_specific_pointer.

[anonymous]

Fixed on trunk