Re: [boost] Shared pointers and pointers to members issue (with fix)

From: Michael Marcin (mike_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-28 23:51:21

Michael Anderson wrote:
> Howdy everyone.
> I have some code that uses pointers to member variables that I want to 
> switch to using boost::shared_ptrs, some of the code looks like this.
> 
> class Bar {};
> class Foo
> {
>  public:
>     Bar bar;
> };
> 
> ...
> Foo * fooptr = new Foo;
> Bar * barptr = &Foo.bar;
> ...
> 
> So to make this work with shared_ptrs I can do this:
> 
> class Bar {}
> class Foo
> {
>   public:
>    Foo() : bar(new Bar) {}
>    shared_ptr<Bar> bar;
> };
> 
> ...
> <snip>
> 

Pardon my ignorance but why not just use scoped_ptr<Bar>?

- Michael Marcin