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To expand a little on my previous post:

>Alternatively you could define one function on smartrefs that returns
>a smartref-controller:
>
>	Smartref r;
>	control(r).invalidate_cache();
>	control(r).query_status();
>
>This looks like a nice way of doing it to me, since it visually flags
>the use of meta-operations, while still allowing the normal "." syntax.

The more I think about this the more I like it.
In fact I would say that is is *better* than just allowing
	r.invalidate_cache();
since you *want* meta-operations to stand out as being semantically different
to standard operations. This method allows you to clearly seperate the two.
Also in general you might want to control access to meta-operations, and
having this seperation also makes that easier.

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