Is this ok to do?

From	jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Is this ok to do?
Date	2012-04-19 19:34 +0000
Organization	Freie Universitaet Berlin
Message-ID	<9vb7llFfqbU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink)

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Hi,

   sorry for the stupid subject but I had no good idea how to
condense it into a few words.

I have a method in a class A that calls a method of another class
B that in turn deletes the instance of class A from which it was
called (the B instance "owns" the instance of A and created it
calling 'new'). This feels a bit wrong since when the call of B's
method returns the instance of A has already ceased to exist. Ok,
I don't do anything in that method of A anymore after the call of
the B method returns (no use of 'this' or anything else that would
use data of A) but it still looks a bit dicy to me. Am I too pa-
ranoid and this is quite fine or are there real issues with this?

                           Best regards, Jens
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Is this ok to do? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-04-19 19:34 +0000
  Re: Is this ok to do? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-04-19 22:01 +0200
    Re: Is this ok to do? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-04-19 20:21 +0000
      Re: Is this ok to do? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-04-20 06:17 +0000
        Re: Is this ok to do? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-04-20 13:20 +0200
        Re: Is this ok to do? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-04-20 17:00 +0000

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