From -2642224054328851769 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,176c9dc06a6729eb X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-03 07:28:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: ArchonTreborus@netscape.net (Robb) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: why doesn't delete NULL the pointer? Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:26:52 GMT Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <6ee7d287.0204022127.1ae65bbc@posting.google.com> References: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1017847621 mail2news:10634 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Apr 2002 05:27:00 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:10377 p2sam@uwaterloo.ca (Pedro Sam) wrote in message news:... > Hi all, > > I'm curious about the delete operator and NULL pointers. Why doesn't > the standard require that the delete operator to set the pointer's value > to NULL? See what Bjarne Stroustrup say about this in one of his FAQ's: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#delete-zero --Robb --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]