Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] scoped_array / shared_array (size_t) constructor

Subject: Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] scoped_array / shared_array (size_t) constructor
From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-06 11:28:20

Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Does anyone else have comments / concerns about a (size_t) constructor?

Yes.  First, please go to the standards committee and get them to add 
this to raw pointers:

   float* ptr = new float[128];  // too much typing!
   float* ptr(128);              // much better!

When they have agreed to that, come back here and suggest that 
scoped_array<> and shared_array<> are updated to match.

As I see it, scoped_array<> is the THIN wrapper around a raw pointer 
that delete[]s it when it goes out of scope.  And nothing more.

Regards,  Phil.