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

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