Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] lost doc link to enable_shared_from_this

Subject: Re: [boost] [smart_ptr] lost doc link to enable_shared_from_this
From: Kim Barrett (kab.conundrums_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-14 16:17:17

On May 13, 2013, at 8:10 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
> In boost 1.53 I can't find any reference to the documentation forenable_shared_from_this.  The documentation page exists:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/smart_ptr/enable_shared_from_this.html
> 
> but I can't find any reference to it from anywhere in the smart_ptr / shared_ptr documentation.  As late as boost 1.52 there was a reference to it in a note for the 
> 
>    template<class Y> explicit shared_ptr(Y * p);
> 
> constructor, but that note was removed in boost 1.53, and there doesn't seem to be any other reference to enable_shared_from_this.  One of the places I expected to find a reference to enable_shared_from_this was the "Programming Techniques" page's entry "Obtaining a shared_ptr from a raw pointer", but I found no mention of it there through boost 1.53.

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