Re: [boost] Request for rationale

Mike Tegtmeyer wrote:

I agree but it quickly becomes a pain because you end up writing a wrapper for every thing of this type to satisfy this 'wart' with shared_ptr:

pthread_create ... opendir fopen open free COM objects

the list goes on.

I guess if shared_ptr was to be done all over again, I think that I would argue that it should act like a pointer, ie you shouldn't be able to 'delete' a 'null' pointer...

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You lost me there. It's perfectly fine to delete a null pointer. 5.3.5/2 says "if the value of the operand of delete is the null pointer the operation has no effect." Thanks, Michael Marcin