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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

In trying to follow some pieces code recently and tracking down some 
memory leaks, I see that as some classes have become more sophisticated, 
ownership is not always clear. Where we used to use references to data, 
we often now need to use pointers. This lead to a number of leaks and 
makes code harder to read.

I don't know of any simple solutions for this, but it is worth 
discussing what to do. It might just be a case of naming conventions. 
Perhaps an idea is to start by trying returning smart pointers in the 
linear algebra factories? Boost provides a number of smart pointers that 
are straightforward to use. If this works, we can try using them more 
extensively.

Garth