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http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/observer_ptr
finally, a new C++ pointer type that is literally just a regular pointer that is referred to differently for no reason. i'm in heaven
@revenant is there some communication of intent this actually helps with?
@00dani @sl2c @revenant Basically this, yes.
“Hi, yes, I know this C++ codebase is almost all references, unique_ptr<>, and shared_ptr<>, but this raw pointer really needs to be a raw pointer and isn't a mistake or something that needs to be fixed up to match the coding style”
(Disclaimer: I have actually wanted observing_ptr<> for pretty much this reason)
@sl2c @revenant i think the intent it communicates is "this is just like a c pointer, but i'm a very smart c++ developer who used it on purpose, not a veteran c developer still coding c in c++"
or something like that