Larry Evans <cppljevans@cox-internet.com> writes:

On 03/24/2006 11:00 AM, David Abrahams wrote: [snip]

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Yes, the library ought to contain something like that, as I have been saying for years. Probably it should be spelled something like: new_<shared_ptr<T> >(a, b, c, ...) new_<auto_ptr<T> >(a, b, c, ...) Unfortunately, really making these functions work correctly for more than about 5 or 6 arguments is currently not feasible because of what's known as "the forwarding problem" (google it). Boost Consulting is working on a project where we'll need this functionality, so I hacked up the enclosed. I'm going to generalize it (and hopefully, optimize compilation speed) a bit and try to get it into Boost. In the meantime, enjoy.

I tried to post the following but got an error. I'm trying again, but I've also mailed directly to David in case I'm unsuccessful. <--------------- cut here -------------------

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Of course I see that that would still require all the boost_pp forwarding magic in David's new_.hpp, but it would be nice if the new_ forwarding magic and that in auto_overhead could be merged somehow increase reuse.

That's what I meant when I wrote that I was going to generalize the code. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com