How to create a container of noncopyable elements

Question

Is there a way use STL containters with non-copyable elements?

something like this:

class noncopyable
{
    noncopyable(noncopyable&);
    const          


        

Answer 1

Another option is to use the Boost Pointer Container library. This acts much like a standard container of std::auto_ptrs would, were such a thing possible: it retains exclusive ownership of its elements, and it cannot be copied. It also has less overhead than a standard container of shared_ptrs.