Re: [Boost-users] how to help an object to delete itself the boost way

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] how to help an object to delete itself the boost way
From: Ireneusz Szcześniak (irek.szczesniak_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-17 15:15:04

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your email.  I only wonder how an object should trigger its 
deletion...

Best,
Irek

W dniu 17.12.2015 o 20:38, Ian Bruntlett pisze:
> Hi Ireneusz,
>
> Basically your class is a resource handle. If the constructor cannot
> complete, the accepted approach is to throw an exception.
>
> If a member function finishes the job and frees the resources, have
> that member function modify the object's member variables so the
> destructor can recognise that the resources have been freed and it
> doesn't need to do anything about those resources.
>
> This approach is called RAII and see this page:-
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
>
> BW,
>
>
> Ian
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