If the pointer is meant to be owned by the caller, you could consider references (assuming the objects are required of course).

-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Mikhail Kubzin Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:45 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] shared_ptr in API

Did you consider using weak_ptr in your API?

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