Graphics properties as objects

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Jan-2008, John Swensen wrote:

| Is there a reason you use your own reference counting instead of using  
| auto_ptr or some other smart pointer?  I don't know the Octave code  
| really well, but have noticed the ref variable in a variety of classes.

For one thing, Octave predates auto_ptr.  I would also bet that
auto_ptr is not always precisely what we want.

jwe