-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 July 2009, Sid Sacek wrote:
I wonder if it might be better/possible to have a shared_ptr<T> that
didn't
assume its corresponding "raw" pointer type was T* but rather T.
If I'm not mistaken, the C++0x committee is setting the 'shared_ptr<>' class in stone as we speak. I seriously doubt that can be changed this late in the game, considering the amount of code that is already using this class as-is.
I'm not under any delusions about getting such a change to std::shared_ptr into c++0x. That doesn't preclude something like this being added to boost though, under a different name (I'll call it "generalized_shared" for the moment). Then boost::shared_ptr could be implemented as template<typename T> class shared_ptr: public generalized_shared<T*> {...}; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpWL90ACgkQ5vihyNWuA4Uk2ACcDr+WxE2Ku00ljjQRnUB+1n/c m4EAnjYLI/S+5KyIgopMyLFrI9xX10vB =cOH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----