Force deletion of slot in boost::signals2

Question

I have found that boost::signals2 uses sort of a lazy deletion of connected slots, which makes it difficult to use connections as something that manages lifetimes of objects. I

Answer 1

This is an incredibly annoying aspect of boost::signals2.

The approach I took to resolve it is to store the signal in a scoped_ptr, and when I want to force disconnection of all slots, I delete the signal. This only works in cases when you want to forcefully disconnect all connections to a signal.