Re: [boost] "peer reviewed" - Rights and responsibilities of maintainers

Gavin Lambert wrote:

Conceptually "is_destroyed" is usually a bad idea. By definition, after the destructor has run the memory is free to get stomped on by other objects and thus you can't rely on is_destroyed to return any particular value. Trying to rely on it is UB.

It would be undefined to access the "is_destroyed" bool if it were a member of the singleton, but it's a function local static in Alexander's code, and it looks OK to me in that formulation. Static bools are never destroyed.