Greg Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 09:53 AM 1/31/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>>...
>>In fact, I have been arguing for years that our smart pointers should
>>never have had a public interface which adopts unmanaged resources on
>>construction. Instead, we should write:
>>
>> std::auto_ptr<T> = std::auto_ptr_new<T>(arg1, arg2, arg3);
>>
>>Voila, a managed T straight out of the box.
>
> And I proposed something like this years before that, but
> foundered on not being able to declare a type-safe variadic
> function in C++.
The move/forwarding proposals will fix that. In the meantime we have
boost::ref(x)... ugly but effective.
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