In-Reply-To: <200408091418.i79EIu107210@entwistle.systems.susq.com> stewart@sig.com (Rob Stewart) wrote (abridged):

The whole point behind the names selected for the new-style casts was to make things more verbose.

Yes. And as a result, I know some people still sometimes use old-style casts entirely because they are shorter. I can see mine is a minority view, so now that I've made my plea I'll shut up :-)

Note that it can be written as follows when not casting to a different pointer type:

boost::shared_ptr<Widget> p(boost::shared_ptr_cast(new Widget));

Thanks, that helps. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK