> Just a data structure suited to my very specific problem I think the point is that it's harder to do this properly than it seems like it is, especially in a

> Just a data structure suited to my very specific problem I think the point is that it's harder to do this properly than it seems like it is, especially in a systems language. I've seen many "working" shared pointers in C++ that only worked if you used them in the way the original authors happened to use them. They wouldn't work if, say, you put a bunch of them in a std::vector. So some of this is about what "works" means to different people.