In article <39DB61F7.949E4622@tribble.com>,
David Tribble <david@tribble.com> nicely summarized the arguments in
favor of his proposal that   delete p;   should nullify p.

How would this proposal handle the case where p is a non-lvalue
expression?  For example,

 int *bar();
 int *p;
 bool cond;
 // ...
 delete cond ? p : bar();

Should  p  still be nullified if  cond == true ?

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   "Casting should required the root password I believe at times.
                                    --  Ron Natalie in comp.std.c++

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