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axilmar on Nov 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++ 20: The Core Language

Why weren't you using smart pointers before c++11? boost had them, and rolling your own is very easy.

I did the latter for a project that started around 2000 and never looked back.

sramsay on Nov 8, 2019 [–]

I think the answer to that is that I wasn't an experienced enough developer at the time to know how to do that. ;)

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