Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr vs pass object by reference

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I use shared_ptr like a "poor-man's" garbage collection. Instead of having

Ahh, being a c++ developer I see garbage collection as a poor man's raii (you can't even control when something is destructed for gods' sake ;))

Perhaps, but shared_ptr's may fail here either. Atm shared_ptr to object being constructed (thru enable_shared_from_this) cant be dealt out in constructors which make it impossible to build parent child relation ships at constructor time if the child needs a weak_ptr to parent.