Destructing Member Objects

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Brian White" <bcwhite at pobox.com> wrote in message 
news:ft9oil$j0a$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> class foo
>> {
>>   private ~this()
>>   {
>>   }
>>
>>   public kill()
>>   {
>>   // call any specific code you want here
>>   delete this;
>>   }
>> }
>>
>> Then use foo.kill() instead of delete foo. Ugly, but works, I think.
>
> I don't think it does work.  If you have a "scope" variable, for example, 
> the compiler won't call "kill" when deleting the object.

You'd have to do it yourself.

{
    auto f = new foo();
    scope(exit) f.kill();

    // ...
}