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- From: "Nathan Myers, http://www.cantrip.org/" <ncm@cantrip.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: delete this
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 23:30:38 GMT
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- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- Earl Chew wrote:
- >
- > I believe that `delete this' is "unsafe".
- >
- > Does the draft standard say this explicitly?
-
- The Draft doesn't say this, and it shouldn't say this.
-
- The subject was discussed in committee. The construct is
- used in plenty of existing code that we saw no reason to break.
- It has also been discussed in this newsgroup at length.
-
- For the record, I use "delete this" often. It works admirably,
- in the right context. I don't use it anywhere else.
-
- Nathan Myers
- ncm@cantrip.org http://www.cantrip.org/
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