Re: [boost] Syntactic sugar for scoped_ptr

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-15 20:52:25

At 08:56 AM 7/15/2002, Peter Dimov wrote:

 >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. :-) )

Agreed, in case you want one more opinion.

--Beman