[boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-05 13:52:10

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Ah, one more point that was discussed... there was much around operator->
> and operator* which don't make sense for certain resources. With Loki's
> SmartPtr, you can disable these two functions. Granted, the error message
> would be different, such as "get_reference not found" as opposed to
> "operator* not found". 

A little judiciously-applied SFINAE can fix that, though.

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