Re: [Boost-users] [SmartPointers] weak_ptrs, raw pointers, and cycles

Michael Nicolella wrote:

What if something else has a shared_ptr to B?

Yes, this is what I was missing, thank you very much. (Embarrassingly, I'd drawn a picture of this exact situation so I'd remember why the weak_ptr was useful, then I found that I didn't understand my own picture. Sigh.) Thanks all for the instant clarification. Scott