Once you've adopted boost's smart pointers, is there any case where you use raw pointers?

Question

I'm curious as I begin to adopt more of the boost idioms and what appears to be best practices I wonder at what point does my c++ even remotely look like the c++ of yesteryear, often found in typical examples and in the minds of those who've not been introduced to "Modern C++"?

Answer 1

I don't use shared_ptr almost at all, because I avoid shared ownership in general. Therefore, I use something like boost::scoped_ptr to "own" an object, but all other references to it will be raw pointers. Example:

boost::scoped_ptr<SomeType> my_object(new SomeType);
some_function(my_object.get());

But some_function will deal with a raw pointer:

void some_function(SomeType* some_obj)
{
  assert (some_obj);
  some_obj->whatever();
}