Gregory Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm generally less afraid of automatic conversions than many others, > and dropped them from auto_ptr, and later from shared_ptr, only under > duress. I like them for wrapper classes because they make it possible > to drop the wrappers directly into existing code that uses the wrapped > types. I like the terseness too, but then I am perverse enough to > prefer &*p to p.get().
Some conversions are worse than others. For example, an implicit conversion from a raw pointer to an owning handle/smart-pointer is far more dangerous than the opposite conversion. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
