Re: Slowly moving to C++

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> From: bart.vandeghinste@dewildecbt.com
> Sender: "Bart Vande Ghinste" <bart.vandeghinste@dewildecbt.com>
> To: <duerst@w3.org>
> Subject: Slowly moving to C++
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:22:46 +0200

> Hello,
> 
> I just read your post in the www-lib mailing list about the move from C to
> C++. At the end you wrote :
> 
> "The main problem that isn't addressed here is that it's not really
> advisable in C++ for an object to delete itself, and that therefore deletion
> has to be done at the place where the object is constructed."
> My question is why ? I can see 2 issues with it :
> 1. Deletion of object by an external user after object has deleted it self :
> Make you destructor protected and things won't happen again.
> 2. Who deletes who ?  Normally the creator is responsible for deleting the
> object.
> Use a platform independent COM reference counting scheme as Netscape does in
> Mozilla. This way each one has the impression of deleting the object. Also
> in this way the library gets a more interface alike approach.
> 
> These are just my two cents about it...
> 
> 
> Very Best Regards,
> 
> Bart
> 
> 
> 


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium
#-#-#  mailto:duerst@w3.org   http://www.w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 28 April 1999 01:25:46 UTC