Using reference as class members for dependencies

Question

I am going back to C++ after spending some time in memory-managed languages, and I\'m suddently kinda lost as to what is the best way to implement dependency injection. (I a

Answer 1

I would steer clear of references as members since they tend to cause no end of headaches if you end up sticking one of your objects in an STL container. I would look into using a combination of boost::shared_ptr for ownership and boost::weak_ptr for dependents.