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b91926@fsgm01.fnal.gov (David Sachs) writes:

>One form for placement operator delete, that might avoid ambiguity is:
>
>delete (placement parameters) (pointer)
>
>The extra parentheses around the pointer would make this not a
>syntactically correct non-placement delete.

Nope, that won't help.  Consider the following code:

	operator delete (void *, void (*)(int *));
	void f(int *);
	int *p;
	// ...
	delete (f) (p);

Should this be a call to placement delete, or should
it be equivalent to

	delete f(p);

?

The ambiguity problems could have been resolved by using a 
syntax such as `delete {placement parameters} pointer'.

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