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: Richard Damon (Richard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-17 21:50:20

On 12/17/15 3:15 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> Thanks for your email.  I only wonder how an object should trigger its 
> deletion...
>
>
> Best,
> Irek
The big issue that I see is how do you know that the object was created 
via new? (that is the only sort of object that CAN be deleted).

Also, if the object deletes itself, it somehow must make sure that no 
one else has kept a copy of its address and might try to access after it 
has deleted itself.

Both of these questions, and some of your comments, point somewhat to 
the idea that it might not be the object that wants to delete itself, 
but that the object may be part of some framework, and it should inform 
the framework that it is done, and the framework can then remove the 
object and delete it.

-- 
Richard Damon