**revenant** @revenant@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2018, 05:24

**revenant** @revenant@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2018, 05:24

revenant @revenant@mastodon.social

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

**will (tilde aspect)** @sl2c@tiny.tilde.website · Mar 01, 2018, 05:27

**will (tilde aspect)** @sl2c@tiny.tilde.website · Mar 01, 2018, 05:27

@revenant is there some communication of intent this actually helps with?

**danielle~! ✅** @00dani · 2018-03-01T05:34:42Z

danielle~! ✅ @00dani

@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

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**🔥RAOF🔥** @RAOF@dev.glitch.social · Mar 01, 2018, 05:45

**🔥RAOF🔥** @RAOF@dev.glitch.social · Mar 01, 2018, 05:45

@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)