Inline. "John Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you can convince most of the people on this list to provide an automatic > conversion, more power to you. I still maintain that avoiding hard to diagnose > errors is worth much more than saving 6 characters of typing.
I am not trying to convince anybody in overall goodness of automatic conversion. :-) I am asking question, which is still ignored: what "hard to diagnose errors" do you envision for smart handles??? Reference to some dogma would suffice too. ;-) > For a discussion of why user defined conversions are a bad idea (not always, > but most of the time), see More Effective C++, Item 5. I've read it when it was printed. I know author's reasons. And I agree with most of them. The question is: how do they apply in _this particular case_? Thanks, Eugene _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
