Re: Throwing auto_ptr
On Apr 2, 12:09 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <a...@start.no> wrote:
* Thomas Kowalski:
I currently was thinking whether the following is a good idea:
I want to have something like an auto_ptr that checks during the
dereferencing whether the pointer is null and throws something like a
NullPointerException. Does someone have some experiences with
something like this? In general is it a good idea at all?
Better have it terminate the program. Even better, do the checking only
in the constructor and make it immutable.
Isn't that just what a reference does. (Some compilers omit the
checking, but there's no reason to. From a quality of
implementation point of view, they should check. I guess most
just consider that the code's going to blow up fast enough
anyway.)
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