Deterministic resource freeing - delete deprecation (again)

[Alexander]

On 27.04.2011 16:48, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> basically, dispose cleans up resources *knowing* that all its references are still valid.

  Right, but cleaning of resources doesn't mean that object will be destructed - it can be reused afterwards (connection reestablished, file reopened etc).

> The deallocation of object memory is a separate thing (outside dispose or the destructor).

  That's why I think that clear() is bad name choice, when it leads to destruction :)

/Alexander