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Frank Bailleul <"<REMOVE THIS>bailleuf"@btmaa.bel.alcatel.be> writes:

> Just curious (maybe it is already explained somewhere):
>
> Why doesn't std::auto_ptr have an operator==() ?

As it doesn't have a conversion to T*, in order to look like
a normal pointer it could have operator==; but the intended
use of auto_ptr is to hold an object (have the responsabillity
of deleting it), and normally auto_ptr never compare equal.

But for some ref_counted_ptr it is very resonnable to have
operator==.

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Valentin Bonnard
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