[Qt-interest] About QScopedPointer

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 13 de May de 2011 03:33:45 Mihail Naydenov wrote:
> Problem is sometimes the pointer is not initialized when constructed.
> 
> It is later initialized by some func(Data** data)
> 
> Now I will have to do
> 
> Data* p = NULL;
> 
> func(&p);
> 
> QScopedPointer<Data, Release> sp(p);
> 
> // use sp, forget about p
> 
> Which is a bit cumbersome

Indeed. But you're attacking this problem from the wrong angle. You should 
change func to be:

	func(QScopedPointer<Data> &p)

So you can just do:
	QScopedPointer<Data> d;
	func(d);

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