[Dune] method pointer on entity.

[Martin Nolte]

I support this proposal. It is also extremely weird, if the compiler can cast 
an entity into an entity pointer on a function call (not to mention that is 
may be very slow).

Martin

Christian Engwer wrote:
> As a followup of fs#576...
> 
> I just realized how weird
> 
> elementPtr_ = element;
> 
> looks.
> 
> To avoid confusion and strange implicit behaviour, I'd suggest to mark
> EntityPointer(const Entity&) explicit.
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:49:03PM +0200, Robert Kloefkorn wrote:
>> Hello Dune,
>>
>> as decided in Berlin we wanted to add a method pointer that returns an 
>> EntityPointer on all entities. To create an EntityPointer one would write
>>
>> EntityPointer p = entity.pointer();
>>
>>
>> Alternatively, one could add an explicit constructor taking an entity to 
>> the EntityPointer class. With this one could write
>>
>> EntityPointer p( entity );
>>
>> I prefer the second way.
>> What do the developers think?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> R
>>
> 
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