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You're right, I'll rephrase: I agree with Blows point on it so far.

But I am pretty biased, I loved reference counting, and ARC just made it more awesome. I want ownership, I point strongly. I don't care about ownership, I'll have a weak ref and that's it.

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You just described std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr. I recommend doing some more reading on the subject.

Thanks, I will! But it doesn't change what Blow said, and what I agreed with. It becomes ugly and takes more space than I need to. My class becomes weak_ptr and what I want to use becomes the template. You should also look into his talk about c++ and its weaknesses.

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