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From: dattatri@metaphor.Metaphor.COM (Dattatri)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++
Subject: Explicit Destructor Call Syntax
Keywords: X::~X() or ~X()?
Message-ID: <2117@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 00:47:48 GMT
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Here is something weird with my compiler when I use an explicit call
to a destructor.
As per Pg 279 of the ARM, the syntax "this->~X()" or object.~X()" are
both valid calls to the destructor,  and to explicitly use a direct call
(bypassing the virtual function mechanism) "object.X::~X()".

However the compiler that I'm using rejects this->~X() and object.~X() and
accepts this->X::~X() and object.X::~X().

I've used same code shown in the ARM.

Did anything change in the standard after the ARM was published?

Thanks in advance

Kayshav -- dattatri@metaphor.com