Is it acceptable to call a destructor?

Stone Mask · 2012-10-23T18:06:28

I read into it a bit, and the little information I got was from this source: You can use a destructor explicitly to destroy objects, although this practice is not recommended.[/quote] I have an enemy object that is destroyed upon being intersected with a projectile object. Instead of making a bunch of if statements in a for loop outside the object, wouldn't it be easier and cleaner to make the enemy object just destroy itself if it detects colliding with a projectile? Would it be okay, according to conventions, to call ~enemy INSIDE the enemy class, rather than having to code outside the enemy class?

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Started by StoneMask October 18, 2012 04:39 PM

39 comments, last by yckx 11 years, 5 months ago

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October 23, 2012 06:06 PM

Kunos's response to my post is correct: the dead flag is an approach that should not be taken without some evidence that it would be an improvement in a given context. I simply wanted to note that superman3275's post immediately above mine perhaps should not be quite so absolute