Re: [Boost-users] [SmartPointers] weak_ptrs, raw pointers, and cycles

From: Scott Meyers (usenet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-18 13:29:15

Michael Nicolella wrote:
> What if something else has a shared_ptr to B?

Yes, this is what I was missing, thank you very much.  (Embarrassingly, I'd 
drawn a picture of this exact situation so I'd remember why the weak_ptr was 
useful, then I found that I didn't understand my own picture.  Sigh.)

Thanks all for the instant clarification.

Scott