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Hello everyone

I know that one cannot pass a parameter to destructor functions in classes.

Is there a reason why this functionality was left out of c++, and is there a way to get around it?

Thanks!

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Sure, just set a member variable before your destructor gets called, and reference that variable from the destructor.

Dave

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Thanks!

I never thought of that :)

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Are you calling your destructor function explicitly? If so.. you probably shouldn't ;)

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Well, what I meant was that if I created an object based on a class, with dynamic allocation, such as this:

Vehicle *a = new Vehicle;

then I would have to delete it later on, using delete
I was thinking if there is a way to pass parameters at the delete statement

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