Re: [Boost-users] polymorphism and boost::shared_ptr

7 Sep 2007


      On 9/7/07, Brad Ryder  wrote:
...
main()
{
A base;
shPtrB spB(new B());
shPtrC spC(new C());
// I dont want to typecast spB or spC
A.AddChild( (shPtrA) spB);
A.AddChild( (shPtrA) spC);
}
Simply stop using shPtrB and shPtrC, and just use shPtrA.  e.g.,

main()
{
A base;
shPtrA spB(new B());
shPtrA spC(new C());

// works fine
A.AddChild(spB);
A.AddChild(spC);
}

HTH,

--Michael Fawcett