From: Warren Young
Date: June 15 2009 4:10pm
Subject: Re: Why dynamic allocation for Option objects?
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Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> std::string
> DBDriver::set_option(std::auto_ptr<Option> o);
> 
> The existing function could then be changed to simply forward to that
> one, and ideally deprecated.

Perhaps.  I'll keep it in mind, but I don't much mind the current 
formulation.  Maybe next time I'm in that area of the code it will 
rankle me, too.