Deterministic resource freeing - delete deprecation (again)

[Alexander]

On 27.04.2011 15:15, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> You can use clear to call the destructor of a class, and then GC.free (if you wish) to free the memory. 

  BTW, why it is called clear()? To me, clearing something is not destruction. For instance, some buffer object may be cleared to empty the buffer, so the action of clear() is counter-intuitive, IMHO.

/Alexander