Re: std::auto_ptr<> Help Please

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From: Harold Howe [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:46

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>> If so, this is much preferred over having to remember to delete the
>> object in the class' destructor.
> 
> I would say yes. See Herb Sutter's Exception C++ and More Exceptional C++.

But beware of incomplete types. In general, you can't have an auto_ptr 
member of a class if the pointer it is holding refers to an incomplete 
type (something that has been forward declared). Well, actually, you can 
use an auto_ptr here, but you have to be careful.

h^2

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