Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] poly casts

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-23 12:00:57

David Gruener wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that the polymorphic casts are deprecated without replacement
> with the new *_pointer_cast style. Why?

Because the new casts are in TR1 and the polymorphic casts aren't. So if you 
care about portability between boost::shared_ptr and std::tr1::shared_ptr, 
you should stick to the new casts only.