Github user SolidWallOfCode commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/565#issuecomment-209056115 I'm not sure we need to prevent the implicit conversion to a pointer. What's important is the inability to touch the member variable in `Ptr` that holds the raw pointer. Our `Ptr` is equivalent to `std::instrusive_ptr` and one key advantage of that over `std::shared_ptr` is the ability to safely access the raw pointer.
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