Re: [boost] [valid_ptr] proposing a new type of pointer object that allows validity tracking without memory management and object ownership

Dan Walters wrote:

I do not understand your comment about f() indirectly causing the object to be destroyed, could you explain this a little more? if f() is a member function, surely that would involve the line "delete this;" ? I am missing something...

It's rarely as direct as "delete this"; the chain is usually more convoluted, f.ex. p->f() calls g() which calls h() which happens to replace the contents of a container that owns the object.