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- Subject: Re: Smart Pointer Implementation & question
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 10:48:51 GMT
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- In article <4dfe36$d99@grid.direct.ca>, Ken Clark <ken@direct.ca> wrote:
- >Hi. I have implemented a reference counting smart pointer class. It works
- >well, except that I can't get a basic behavior of normal pointers: automatic
- >casting of subclass pointers.
-
- This is a well-known problem with smart pointers.
-
- A good survey of the extent of the problem and possible solutions can be
- found in
-
- @inproceedings{edel92b,
- author = "Daniel R. Edelson",
- title = "Smart Pointers: They're Smart, But They're Not Pointers",
- booktitle = "USENIX C++ Conference",
- year = 1992
- }
-
-
- Richard Jones
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