RE: [boost] Most needed/desired features in C++

From: Gary Powell (powellg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-19 14:34:46

If I can get "smart references" i.e. operator.() I'd like to be 
able to overload "sizeof(SmartReference<T>)" to return the 
size of T, not the sizeof "SmartReference"

I think it will be necessary to determine the amount of raw memory
to allocate if you were to copy a smartReference. But
its been a long time since I tried messing with this.

At the time I was trying to solve the problem of how to you make
a proxy object behave exactly like the real object for all 
users of the object.

Anyone else ever wish for this?

  -Gary-