From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Peter Dimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>From semantic point of view, it's more like "This function will obtain a > > shared_ptr to the object identified by the weak_ptr argument. If there is no > > such object, an empty shared_ptr is returned." > > > > To me, get_shared_ptr seems to express this a bit better than make_shared. > > But I might be wrong. > > If it were equivalent to construction, you could just do > > static_cast<shared_ptr<T> >(weak) > > right? I realize this doesn't deduce T.
True. But I don't think of make_shared/get_shared_ptr as a cast. It's more of the "give me a pointer to the object identified by this opaque handle" variety. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
