Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:

- Why are top layer APIs riddled with templates instead of being hidden behind simplified convenience typedefs and non-template conventional OO class designs instead?

I, for one, am grateful that `boost::shared_ptr` is declared as a class template rather than a class. Thanks