On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Luke Dickens <lwd03@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was going to look at smart pointers when I did a code clean-up. I have > the boost libraries, but don't want to introduce too much new code all at > once. Are they fairly easy to incorporate into existing code, or is this too > pervasive a coding paradigm requiring an entire rework. > They're very much libraries, not a framework, so you can easily ignore large parts. (Wave and spirit, for example.) Also, of particular interest might be the Boost Pointer Containers library. A boost::ptr_vector<T> is internally a std::vector<T*>, so it doesn't need copy constructability or assignability of A, with a helpful interface that calls delete on the pointers before erasing them from the container and has most of the interface look like a sequence of T, so you don't need to add extra indirections to iterators and such.
