Re: Managed Code Syntax Swerves from Standard C++

Last night I wrote a short class to implement reference counted smart
pointers. Not that hard to put together, but I was tired and did not
realize the class would not work in a multithreaded system. No
problem, I liked yesterdays architecture, it works so why muck with
it. All that was really wrong was the counter could be impugned by
threads. So today I wrote a proxy class to replace the extant class
and simply dropped my new abstraction for a long into the code. No
problem until I went to compile.
ostream& operator<<(ostream& os) { os << pointee; }

Why does using managed code force me to remove "friend" from my
declaration.
T* operator->() { return pointee; }

Why can't I explicitly declare this to be a "const"?

I am using standard C++ or so I though, can't calling windows for
implementing a LockProxy behave like other classes?