L. Spiro posted this in another thread: http://www.artima.com/cppsource/bigtwo3.html

I find the concept fascinating, but I have a some questions about two of the RAII class member functions.

1.) What does the reset function do? What I see happening is it deleting the member pointer and then assigning the pointer passed into the function to the deleted pointer. How does that work? Is that legal C++?

2.) What purpose is there for the swap function? Apart from sorting pointers, is there any other reason for its existence?

I figured out reset.

Still unsure about swap...

Thank you! That explains a lot!