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From: Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.fidonet.org.org (Jim Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Want pointers on intelligent pointers
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Date: 20 Mar 91 22:11:47 GMT
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 marc Andrew Pawlowsky writes in a message to All

 MA> The linked list would be in use, and it is necessary to keep 
 MA> track how many times the objects are being used. 
 MA> While I can call a function other than delete, I thought it would 
 MA> be nice to use destructor oeprator since other people will be 
 MA> using my classes, so if somebody did 
 MA>  C::c(void) { 
 MA>  A a; 
 MA> ... all sorts of nifty things 
 MA> } 
 MA> "a" would be deleted properly, even though no explicit destuction 
 MA> routine is called. 

Sorry, I don't mean to be dense, but the A created in C::c() would not be the one in your linked list: it will have been specifically created for use in c() and should be disposed of at the end of c().