== Quote from Daniel Gibson ([email protected])'s article > Am 27.04.2011 02:03, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer: > IMHO clear isn't needed for anything but structs and Objects. > For any simple type or pointer you can just write x = x.init; instead of > clear(x) or, as you already mentioned, x=null; for pointers. > AFAIK the main purpose of clear() is to explicitly call the destructor - > and that only makes sense for structs and classes. > Allowing it for other types (especially pointers) just sneaks in > non-obvious bugs, especially when it's considered a replacement for > delete (which calls the destructor for both Object a *struct). > BTW: clear() has often been mentioned in this NG but isn't documented in > the Phobos documentation (which is no surprise because clear() doesn't > have doc-comments). > So I guess I'll report this as a bug. > Cheers, > - Daniel
Regarding clear(), has the implementation already been corrected so that it does *not* call the constructor after object destruction?
