Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee [LWN.net]

Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Posted Dec 15, 2010 3:06 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee by foom
Parent article: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

No no, you misunderstand. It's not as bad as that. What destructor shared_ptr calls depends on the declared type of the argument in its constructor, not the type of the shared_ptr itself.

Whoa! That is certainly a behaviour I didn't expect. Other smart pointer classes like boost::scoped_ptr or std::auto_ptr don't do this, and I really can't think of a reason for making shared_ptr behave that way. Do you know of any rationale for this behaviour?