Re: [boost] Proposal about smart_ptr

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-21 11:20:11

From: Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> From: "Greg Colvin" <gcolvin_at_[hidden]>
> > > This 'compatibility' header will simply be a (possibly cleaned-up)
> version
> > > of the current code and will not make use of shared_count.
> >
> > This sounds like a clean way to arrange things.
> 
> By the way, is someone using BOOST_SMART_PTR_CONVERSION? Should we drop this
> feature while we're at it? Any standard smart pointers will (hopefully) not
> have a conversion operator, so it's not a good idea to write code that
> relies on it.

Personally, I like such conversions, but there is little chance that the
committee will agree.  But I think if we drop it we should deprecate it
first.