Gregory Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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.
That said, I'm pretty sure I remember that there was a case from Howard which killed the appeal for me. This was a long time ago, just around when the conversion was removed from the Boost shared_ptr. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost