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In article 5549@hpato.aus.hp.com, Earl Chew <earl@hpato.aus.hp.com> writes:
>I believe that `delete this' is "unsafe".
>
>Does the draft standard say this explicitly?

The draft says you must not access a deleted object. If you delete 'this',
you can't touch the object or call any functions on it. The draft
also says you must not destroy an object twice, and deleting "this"
will destroy it once.

So, yes, deleting "this" is in general unsafe, since it is harder to 
make the "no touch" guarantees from inside a member function. You can
design a program so that deleting "this" is appropriate, but such
programs are not common. 
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com


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