deleting Users

[Alexei Babkin]

Hi

I would like users to be able to delete themselves, upon receiving the '-'
symbol.
So what I do is I call:

uAccept(~User);

and next thing i call:

delete this;


However it gives me runtime error
Is there a proper way to do it? (task deleting itself)

Thanks
Alex

[Ian MacDonald]

you should try deleting it in the same scope under which it is defined.

a task deleting itself makes no sense since it didn't create itself.

e.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Alexei Babkin wrote:

Hi

I would like users to be able to delete themselves, upon receiving the '-'
symbol.
So what I do is I call:

uAccept(~User);

and next thing i call:

delete this;


However it gives me runtime error
Is there a proper way to do it? (task deleting itself)

Thanks
Alex

[Caroline Kierstead]

Post by Alexei Babkin
Hi
I would like users to be able to delete themselves, upon receiving the '-'
symbol.
uAccept(~User);

You don't need this, since the user can just break out of its loop and
terminate upon receiving '-'.

Post by Alexei Babkin
delete this;

An object cannot delete itself in this fashion.

Post by Alexei Babkin
However it gives me runtime error
Is there a proper way to do it? (task deleting itself)

See above.