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This `class` provides a specialized proctor object that, upon destruction and unless the `release` method is called, destroys the guarded object of the parameterized `OBJECT_TYPE`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslalg_autoscalardestructor.h>`

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template<class OBJECT_TYPE>
class AutoScalarDestructor;
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== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/AutoScalarDestructor/2constructor.adoc[`AutoScalarDestructor`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Create a guard object, proctoring the specified `object` of the parameterized `OBJECT_TYPE` (if non‐zero), that will invoke the destructor of `object` upon destruction.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/AutoScalarDestructor/2destructor.adoc[`~AutoScalarDestructor`] [.small]#[destructor]#
| Call the destructor on the object of the parameterized `OBJECT_TYPE` that is proctored by this guard object, if any, and destroy this object.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/AutoScalarDestructor/release.adoc[`release`] 
| Set the address of the object proctored by this guard object to 0, thereby releasing from management the object currently managed by this proctor, if any.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/AutoScalarDestructor/reset.adoc[`reset`] 
| Set this guard object to manage the specified `object`, thereby releasing from management any object currently managed by this proctor, if any.
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