Re: [boost] why no strict ownership smart pointer in boost

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-02 07:57:06

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 11:45  PM, Larry Evans wrote:

> There's also:
> http://pcroot.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/ 
> Docs/books/FS/FS_59.html
>
> whose TInstanceOf or TOnlyPointerTo may be what your wanting.

Interesting, thanks for the link.

TInstanceOf appears to have copy semantics.  You can assign TInstanceOf  
and it copies the underlying object.  TOnlyPointerTo looks a bit like  
auto_ptr:  moves with copy syntax.

-Howard