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  2. From: "john (j.d.) hickin" <hickin@bnr.ca>
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  4. Subject: Re: sample auto_ptr template
  5. Date: 10 Apr 1996 14:56:42 GMT
  6. Organization: Bell Northern Research
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  20. |> What you can do is design your code so that you know who owns each object when.
  21. |> The auto_ptr template can help you implement such designs safely.  If you
  22. |> cannot design your code to work with auto_ptr you probably need garbage
  23. |> collection of some form.
  24.  
  25. I have no problem with this approach which is, in fact, forced on one by the
  26. sample implementation, because it is no longer possible to determine ownership
  27. through a member function.
  28.  
  29. -- 
  30. John Hickin      Nortel Technology, Montreal, Quebec
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