clear as a global function is for destroying a class/struct
clear as a member can do anything. clear is not a keyword.
clear(container) - same as delete container, but without freeing any
memory.
container.clear() - remove all elements
This has been brought up before as a problem, I'm not
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:54:06 -0500, so s...@so.do wrote:
clear as a global function is for destroying a class/struct
clear as a member can do anything. clear is not a keyword.
clear(container) - same as delete container, but without freeing any
memory.
container.clear() - remove all
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I don't expect this to be a huge problem. Will people who more likely
destroy an object with:
clear(obj);
or
obj.clear();
? To me, the first looks like you are doing an operation to the object,
where the second looks like you are having the object do an
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:47:11 Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I don't expect this to be a huge problem. Will people who more likely
destroy an object with:
clear(obj);
or
obj.clear();
? To me, the first looks like you are doing an operation
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:56:51 -0500, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:59 -0500, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
Answering a question over on stack overflow I realized that clear()
has
2 meanings.
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
Then the answer I gave was wrong, and am curious what the correct answer
is:
Delete is not to be used with D version 2 and intended to be removed
from the language. What the hold up is, I am not sure. Instead you use a
function, I believe clear(),
Answering a question over on stack overflow I realized that clear() has 2
meanings.
TDPL says that clear should be used to free resources of the object and place
the object into an invalid state. That is failure can occur but memory
corruption is prevent, similar to null for pointer types.
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:59 -0500, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
Answering a question over on stack overflow I realized that clear() has
2 meanings.
TDPL says that clear should be used to free resources of the object and
place the object into an invalid state. That is
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:59 -0500, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
Answering a question over on stack overflow I realized that clear()
has 2 meanings.
TDPL says that clear should be used to free resources of the object
and place the object
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:58:02 -0500, Jérôme M. Berger jeber...@free.fr
wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:59 -0500, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
Answering a question over on stack overflow I realized that clear()
has 2 meanings.
TDPL says that
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:59 -0500, Jesse Phillips
jessekphillip...@gmail.com wrote:
Answering a question over on stack overflow I realized that clear() has
2 meanings.
TDPL says that clear should be used to free resources of the object and
place
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