[boost] Re: Any good reason not to have == for shared_ptr?

From: Bill Klein (bill_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-11-09 19:17:11

Darin wrote:
>I ran into a place where I wanted to compare two shared_ptr
>objects with ==. Is there a good reason not to add an operator
>== template function for shared_ptr?

Well, what would you want it to do, compare the pointers
or the contained objects? That's a good enough reason as
far as I'm concerned. This way, you can define a global
== operator yourself to make it work as you see fit...

But maybe I'm wrong about the reasoning...

-Bill Klein <bill_at_[hidden]>