Idomatic way to guarantee to run destructor?

[Robert M. Münch]

On 2020-05-02 18:18:44 +0000, Steven Schveighoffer said:

> On 5/2/20 4:44 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> 
>> How would that help, because the class instance is now unusable anyway. 
>> So I have it around like a zombie and others might think: "Hey you look 
>> normal, let's get in contact" and then you are doomed...
> 
> The difference is that if you use it, you get an error and a crash. If 
> you clean up the memory, that memory could be reallocated to something 
> else with a completely different type, and now you have memory 
> corruption.

I didn't thought about the "memory is re-used" case here...

And how is the instance made unusable so that a crash happens (which I 
prefer too!)? Does .destroy zero the memory? Just curious how the crash 
situation is detected.

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