In article <3fdcd562@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   I don't really understand what smart pointers are useful for. In my
> opinion if you need to use a smart pointer, there's a flaw in your
> design.

You clearly haven't done a lot of GUI programming.  If you acquire resources
from the operating system, it is usually a good idea to keep them in a
specialised container able to release the resource should i.e. an exception
occur.  Likewise when it comes to passing data to the operating system.
Frequently this does require a more low-level work on manually allocated
memory with new, and then auto_ptr can be really helpful! *

    Thorsten

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