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- From: clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Placement delete suggestion Keywords: dele
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 15:24:07 PST
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Approved: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- References: <4j4ec5$d41@fsgi01.fnal.gov>
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- Originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- In article d41@fsgi01.fnal.gov, b91926@fsgi01.fnal.gov (David Sachs) writes:
-
- >The lack of a placement delete expression form, corresponding to
- >the placment new form, has been a topic for serious discussion in
- >this group. The obvious problem with placement delete is that
- >any non-awkward form could be ambiguous, though examples that
- >would show such ambguity are probably infrequent.
-
- >In view of this, it might be reasonable if the standards committee
- >bit the bullet and declare that such ambiguous forms should be
- >treated as placement deletes.
-
- The subject was discussed at some length in the C++ committee. The
- bullet has been thoroughly chewed and is now quite unappetizing. So far
- as I know, the committee has no interest in revisiting the decision.
- The short answer is that a thorough analysis showed such a facility
- would have too many problems and too little utility.
- ---
- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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