"Adi Shavit" <adish@gentech.co.il> wrote in message news:evbm3f$2v8o$1@digitalmars.com...

For what it's worth, Boost's shared_ptr defines these typedefs:

template<class T> class shared_ptr
{
//...

public:

    typedef T element_type;
    typedef T value_type;
    typedef T * pointer;

//...

Apparently scoped_ptr, static_move_ptr and others define element_type too.

Loki's SmartPtr defines the following (policy defined) typedefs: StoredType, InitPointerType, PointerType, ReferenceType

But, perhaps you should post this question to one of the comp.lang.c++.* groups.

I did. Just didn't get much in the way of interest.

No matter, I've decided on resource_type and const_resource_type (with the 

latter being optional, and inferrable from resource_type).