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> For example, it can be very handy in many situations for a contained object to have a back-pointer to its container.

Does it frequently need an owning reference though or would a weak reference suffice? Usually the latter situation suffices.





A fair point, but then you're still putting the burden on the programmer to figure out where a weak reference is appropriate.

But then I'll just choose a different example, like a general graph.

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