Reference Instantiation/Scope

[Philip Lee Bridson]

Good Evening,

A quick question if I may...

If a method is declared and implemented as below:

static foo& foo::bar() const
{
    return new foo();
}

and then used as this:

if (something)
{
    foo& f = foo::bar();
    // etc...
}

will the memory allocated in bar() be cleaned up when the reference goes out of scope or do I manually need to free it?

Kind Regards,

Phil.

[Athar]

Every new needs a delete.