From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-22 10:08:05
Gregory Colvin <gregory.colvin_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 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.
>
> Agreed. It is the latter conversions I like.
That said, I'm pretty sure I remember that there was a case from
Howard which killed the appeal for me. This was a long time ago, just
around when the conversion was removed from the Boost shared_ptr.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com