Re: [boost] : Curiousity question

Subject: Re: [boost] : Curiousity question
From: Brian Wood (woodbrian77_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-12 20:59:44

Edward Diener  writes:

> I would like to ask a design question for any Boost developers or anyone
> on this mailing list who might care to answer.
>
> You are designing or working on a library, perhaps for Boost, perhaps
> for fun, and part of the design of the library has some public
> functionality taking a shared pointer as input. You:
>
> 1) Use boost::shared_ptr
> 2) Use std::shared_ptr
> 3) Use both boost::shared_ptr and std::shared_ptr with the same
> functionality
> 4) Use neither, you roll your own shared pointer-like functionality
> 5) You don't lke shared pointers and use raw pointers instead
>
> I really am curious about this. I haven't put any limitation on your
> library or made any presumption on who your library is for, on purpose.
> Thanks for anyone answering !

I avoid shared pointers.   I'll use a unique_ptr if a raw
pointer won't work.

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