On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I did some more research and found a study: > > http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~chalin/papers/TR-2006-003.v3s-pub.pdf > > Very interestingly (and exactly the kind of info I was looking for), the study > measures how references are meant to be in a real application of medium-large > size. > > Turns out in 2/3 of cases, references are really meant to be non-null... not > really a landslide but a comfortable majority. > > > Andrei
I'd love to see a similar study for smart pointers. Are they more like pointers or references? My assumption is references, leading to them beign poorly named. :) Later, Brad