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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Objective suicide
Message-ID: <55552@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 18:44:16 GMT
References: <685@dyndata.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <685@dyndata.UUCP> dan@dyndata.UUCP (Dan Everhart) writes:
>Is it kosher for an object to delete itself?

I believe so, but I've never seen anything definitive actually specifying
its permissibility.  Its always worked for me.  Also, destructors
traditionally are implemented [implicitly] so as to do the freeing of the space
that their objects take -- if the destructor is called via delete.
So destructors could be taken as an example where objects delete themselves.
But, destructors are special functions -- which makes them a less than
totally definitive answer to this question.