Re: [boost] [shared_array] Why not in C++11 ?

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:

On 8 July 2013 12:20, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Sid Sacek wrote:

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What I mean is, operator->() does not exist. How can it be a pointer when it is not possible to use pointer notation?

In that case I'd consider this a bug.

It's consistent with the interface of std::unique_ptr.

You can use p.get()->x instead of p->x if you really want to use that notation to access the first element only, but how often do you really want to access the first element of an array, and p[0] isn't just as natural?

I don't see anything wrong with accessing the array element with operator->. This may be limited to the first element only in case of unique_ptr, but shared_ptr supports pointer aliasing, so it can refer to any element within the array. But even in case of unique_ptr I would still provide operator-> for sake of consistency.