On 14 Sep 98 at 10:22, Patrick Schemitz wrote: > Doesn't the destructor remove them from the containers? No it doesn't. Since the object has not "backward pointer to the container ('s !). This means to be "right" ROOT (and any other C++ program too) must scan ALL containers created to find out whether the deleted object did belong one of them. But the last means one has to create the list of all containers as well etc etc etc. It is some of the "well-known" problem of C++. Valery ================================================================= Dr. Valeri Faine (Fine) ------------------- Phone: +1 516 344 7806 Brookhaven National Laboratory FAX : +1 516 344 4206 Bldg. 510A /STAR mailto:fine@bnl.gov Upton, New York, 11973-5000 http://nicewww.cern.ch/~fine USA Dr. Valery Fine Telex : 911621 dubna su ----------- LCTA/Joint Inst.for Nuclear Res. Phone : +7 09621 6 40 80 141980 Dubna, Moscow region Fax : +7 09621 6 51 45 Russia mailto:fine@main1.jinr.dubna.su
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