On Saturday, 27 May 2017 at 18:21:41 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
Then please don't call them "smart", because that term is specifically reserved for something that adds at least some additional features over a regular pointer (bounds checking, memory / lifetime management, etc.).
"smart pointer" just means that it is a pointer wrapped in an ADT. In this context it could provide allocation-information would be one thing it could provide, or reference counting, member access or whatever. The "smart" part was deliberately left unspecified.
