Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:53:59 -0500, Jesse Phillips > <[email protected]> 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 failure can occur >> but memory corruption is prevent, similar to null for pointer types. >> >> However for container types clear() is used to empty the container. It >> is still valid to use the container after calling clear(), but the >> definition from TDPL suggest that this can not be expected. > > 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 sure it's that > terrible, but I can see why there might be confusion. > Uniform function call syntax?
Jerome
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