On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 05:56 America/Denver, David Abrahams wrote:
Gregory Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm generally less afraid of automatic conversions than many others, and dropped them from auto_ptr, and later from shared_ptr, only under duress. I like them for wrapper classes because they make it possible to drop the wrappers directly into existing code that uses the wrapped types. I like the terseness too, but then I am perverse enough to prefer &*p to p.get().
Some conversions are worse than others. For example, an implicit conversion from a raw pointer to an owning handle/smart-pointer is far more dangerous than the opposite conversion.
Agreed. It is the latter conversions I like.
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