Should “delete this” be called from within a member method?

Question

I was just reading this article and wanted SO folks advice:

Q: Should delete this; be called from within a member method?

Answer 1

Yes. Like all the answers say, if you're 100% sure that the class's data will not be used after the delete this is called.

For example, in one project:

void Test()
MyClass * Someclass = new MyClass;
SomeClass->DoYourThing();
SomeClass->KillYourself();
return;

void MyClass::DoYourThing() { return; }
void MyClass::KillYourself() {delete this;}

Very simplistic explanation, the project used delete this; as part of the memory management for objects of that type; their constructor added them to a private list of classes of that type in use, and removed themselves from that list when they were destroyed and then deleted themselves (this was not in a destructor). Any objects of that class that hadn't deleted themselves when the program reached its endpoint then all had their KillYourself() equivalent called from a static member function CleanYourselves()