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  2. From: "Nathan Myers, http://www.cantrip.org/" <ncm@cantrip.org>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: delete this
  5. Date: 5 Feb 1996 23:30:38 GMT
  6. Organization: The Cantrip Cooperative
  7. Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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  18. Originator: clamage@taumet
  19.  
  20. Earl Chew wrote:
  21. > I believe that `delete this' is "unsafe".
  22. > Does the draft standard say this explicitly?
  23.  
  24. The Draft doesn't say this, and it shouldn't say this.
  25.  
  26. The subject was discussed in committee.  The construct is
  27. used in plenty of existing code that we saw no reason to break.
  28. It has also been discussed in this newsgroup at length.
  29.  
  30. For the record, I use "delete this" often.  It works admirably, 
  31. in the right context.  I don't use it anywhere else.
  32.  
  33. Nathan Myers
  34. ncm@cantrip.org  http://www.cantrip.org/
  35.  
  36. [ comp.std.c++ is moderated.  Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu.
  37.   Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu.  The moderation policy is
  38.   summarized in http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/policy.html
  39. ]
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