Re: [boost] Syntactic sugar for scoped_ptr

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-15 07:56:03

From: "Ed Brey" <brey_at_[hidden]>
> I like the operator! and implicit pointer conversion operators that are
part of the current
> shared_ptr.  They are convenient for testing whether the pointer is null
or not with minimal
> verbosity.  I think it would be a good idea to add the same to scoped_ptr
and scoped_array.
>
> What do others think?

I just want to point out that the shared_ptr conversion to bool is not
merely syntactic sugar. It allows shared_ptr declarations in conditions:

if(shared_ptr<X> px = make_shared(wp))
{
}

It'd probably be a good idea to add the conversion to scoped_* and
shared_array for consistency (where it _is_ a syntactic sugar. :-) )