Re: [boost] scoped_ptr rationale

From: Anthony Williams (anthwil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-25 03:23:18

Greg Colvin writes:
 > At 05:51 PM 9/24/2002, you wrote:
 > >...
 > >
 > >Me too. I'm a big fan of scoped_ptr. Making it "more powerful" will make it less useful.
 > 
 > Yep.  I don't even like it having reset.

Reset is useful, so you can have a scoped_ptr as a class member which may or
may not own a resource. If the resource is owned, it dies with the class, and
is not transfered out anywhere. This can be useful for caching.

Anthony