Re: [boost] auto_vector - vector with auto_ptr semantics

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-04 20:31:44

At 08:05 PM 2/4/2002, Greg Colvin wrote:

 >>  I imagine you would be
 >> one of the first to agree that giving auto_ptr move semantics was not
 >> easy, or at least not straight forward! :-)
 >
 >It was the most evil and ugly thing I was ever forced to do. ;->

For readers not aware of the history, be aware that Greg did std::auto_ptr 
only because the committee asked him to.  His own personal preference, 
indeed the preference of the LWG, was for his scoped_ptr and shared_ptr 
proposal (under different names).  std::auto_ptr was perhaps the only time 
the committee as a whole overruled the Library Working Group.

--Beman