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On 12/23/2014 12:45 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> On 2014-12-22 6:35 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
>> On Monday 2014-12-22 18:21 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
>>> On 2014-12-22 6:07 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
>>>> On Monday 2014-12-22 17:54 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-12-22 4:56 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
>>>>>> I think removing implicit conversions to T* will make a
>>>>>> lot of code in the tree uglier (".get()" everywhere).
>>>>>> That might, in turn, encourage people to do worse things
>>>>>> to avoid having to write .get() everywhere; it's worth
>>>>>> thinking about what those things will be.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have any examples of those bad things? (FWIW I'm
>>>>> all for making bad things impossible.)
>>>>
>>>> * using raw pointers instead of smart pointers
>>>
>>> I am planning on making that impossible [*] in 2015.
>>
>> I presume you mean making direct calls to AddRef and Release
>> impossible, and not raw pointers in general.
>
> Well, I did pick that project up but for some reason it was never
> finished (don't remember what.) But that's not what I was talking
> about. See bug 1114683 for an example of what I was talking
> about.
It was finished, and then reverted. For reference:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666414>,
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710473>.
HTH
Ms2ger
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