how to create a local copy of shared pointer?

denizzzka 4denizzz at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 08:34:42 PDT 2012


On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 15:27:03 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 15:15:57 UTC, denizzzka wrote:
>>    S* s = new shared (S); // Why this is a illegal?
>> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (new shared(S)) of 
>> type shared(S)* to S*
>
> Because shared(S) and S are different types. Either declare s 
> as shared too or use a cast.

Why it was made in the language? This can be a safe automatic 
conversion I think.


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