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From: dan@dyndata.UUCP (Dan Everhart)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Objective suicide
Message-ID: <685@dyndata.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 90 00:22:13 GMT
Organization: Dynamic Data & Electronics, Edmonds WA
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Is it kosher for an object to delete itself?  To wit:

class Obj
   {
   /* ... */
   
   void Suicide () { /* ... */  delete this; }
   
   // Assumption:  "Suicide" only called for Obj's which were
   // created with "new" and only when the pointer will never again
   // be used.
   
   /* ... */
   }