Re: [boost] Looking for thoughts on a new smart pointer: shared_ptr_nonnull

On 02-10-2013 13:40, Andrey Semashev wrote:

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Luke Bradford wrote:

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Hi,

I'm new to this list, so apologies for any oversights or faux pas.

I've been finding a lot of use for a type of smart pointer I call shared_ptr_nonnull, which is a variation on shared_ptr which is never allowed to be empty. Specifically:

Anyway, I think, such a pointer does not behave like a real pointer, so it shouldn't be called as such. It looks more like a reference, except that the referred object is accessed through operator->. Maybe it should be called shared_ref because of it.

I'm inclined to think that template< class T > class shared_obj; with use like shared_obj<Foo> sharedFoo = make_shared_obj( 42, "foo" ); would be good names. -Thorsten