Re: [Boost-users] about shared_ptr

Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

Hi all,

I am using shared_ptr to ease implementation of a matlab file wrapper. Esepcially the fact that it is in tr1 and thus available on many platforms already pushed that decision. Now I was wondering about one thing:

Is there a devent way, using shared_ptr, to hand out multiple references? What I mean is something like this:

class Variable { shared_ptr<Variable> ref(); };

How can the user access Variable::ref if he already doesn't have a reference to Variable to start with?