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by blt 2723 days ago
Totally agree. Recently used unique_ptr with a custom deleter is to consume a C library that requires heap allocation with its own alloc/free functions. No destructor!
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I have a class, boringly called value_ptr, that is like unique ptr but if the underlying value supports copy will do a copy constructor and assignment too. Then I don’t have to make one is the classes like this too where I am using a ptr for other reasons. It also has const correctness