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More Effective C++
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More Effective C++

by Scott Meyers
December 1995
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 22m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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An auto_ptr Implementation

Items 9, 10, 26, 31 and 32 attest to the remarkable utility of the auto_ptr template. Unfortunately, few compilers currently ship with a "correct" implementation. Items 9 and 28 sketch how you might write one yourself, but it's nice to have more than a sketch when embarking on real-world projects.

Below are two presentations of an implementation for auto_ptr. The first presentation documents the class interface and implements all the member functions outside the class definition. The second implements each member function within the class definition. Stylistically, the second presentation is inferior to the first, because it fails to separate the class interface from its implementation. However, auto_ptr yields simple ...

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