Re: [boost] Re: SmartPtr (Loki) - auto_ptr/move c'tor issue

From: Greg Colvin (Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-31 12:11:05

At 09:53 AM 1/31/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>...
>In fact, I have been arguing for years that our smart pointers should
>never have had a public interface which adopts unmanaged resources on
>construction.  Instead, we should write:
>
>    std::auto_ptr<T> = std::auto_ptr_new<T>(arg1, arg2, arg3);
>
>Voila, a managed T straight out of the box.

And I proposed something like this years before that, but
foundered on not being able to declare a type-safe variadic
function in C++.