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kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes:

>Actually, it occurs to me that the following does work:
>
>    auto_ptr< T >       f() ;
>    auto_ptr< T >       p1( f().release() ) ;
>	auto_ptr< T >		p2 ;
>	p2.reset( f().release() ) ;
>
>Somehow, it just doesn't seem natural, though. 

It seems fine to me.

It certainly seems more natural than assignment operators that
clobber the right-hand operand.

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