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The number of copy/move constructors is zero, by the way, it's not hard (well, could be one if you're using 1980s compilers)

In my recollection, smart pointers were a fairly common C++ idiom in the early 1990s. Ref-counted shared_ptr and scoped_ptr were even proposed in 1994 for standardization, but didn…

How is the reference for a library abandoned over 15 years ago even relevant? (other than when researching history)

The guide that's publicly available says "If your class needs to be copyable, prefer providing a copy method, such as CopyFrom() or Clone(), rather than a copy constructor" I think…

> either people prefer both or prefer neither. exceptions (specifically, exceptions from constructors) are part of what RAII is , so it's only natural that people "prefer both". As…

It doesn't get any worse than that guide (except maybe EC++ or the FQA). No RAII, no class invariants, no value semantics, no streams, no operators (which means no custom Iterators…