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- From: jgustafs@sisna.com (Josh Gustafson)
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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- In article <4iif06$50m@news4.digex.net>, ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) wrote:
- >John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com) wrote:
- >: >>hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond) writes:
- >: >>>~GuyRuthHammond () {}
- >: >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >: ...I think it says "I leave my trash lying around" -- because
- >: there are no delete calls in his destructor, don't ya know.
- >In some cases a do-nothing dtor body is all that is required. Stroustrup
- >says this somewhere in C++PL.
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- But if the destructor doesn't do anything, it's declaration isn't needed.
- Perhaps this means "parts of me aren't needed"? :-)
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- Josh Gustafson (jgustafs@sisna.com)
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