18 Mar
2011
18 Mar
'11
9:21 p.m.
On 3/18/2011 4:54 PM, pavel wrote:
i'll rephrase it: deleting a pointer states that the scope of the pointer instance does not need the data pointed to (by the pointer instance)
No, deleting a pointer asserts that *nobody* needs the data that the pointer points to. It is conceptually confusing to allow someone to "delete" something and yet have that something still exist.