<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>I am not certain that I can give a proper answer to the question that I posed</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>see <URL: <A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/12/01/53412.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/12/01/53412.aspx</A> >,</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>but page 414 of Stroustrup's book says something like: "It may be best not to</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>call virtual functions from a destructor" and this is the rule that I live by.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> </DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>I think that this illustrates some of the weaknesses of Stroustrup, his book</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>and his language.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> </DIV>
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