On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 07:51, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> It's common that you'll see the following two lines in C++ code:
>
> delete p;
> p = nullptr;
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> How about allowing it as follows?
>
> delete p = nulltpr;
>
>
This is already trivial:

template<class T>
void erase(T*& p)
{
delete std::exchange(p, nullptr);
}

int main()
{
auto p = new foo;
assert(p);
erase(p);
assert(!p);
}

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