what is the correct way to make sure user use share_ptr and not regular ptr?

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Published on 2010-03-15T07:59:25Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 8:09 UTC
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In my class the constructor is private and i added a static method "CreateMyClassPtr" that uses the constructor and returns a share_ptr of it.

Is it the correct implementation?

Do you think i even have to make sure that shared_ptr will be used? Maybe i should leave it to the user to decide?

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