Meaning of .clear() for containers

[Jesse Phillips]

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(), which resets your object to and empty state  
> > (frees resources that isn't GC memory). This is explained in The D  
> > Programming Language book, which I don't have handy right now."
> 
> That answer looks fine to me.
> 
> -Steve

K, pulled the book out. What I missed is that clear(object) calls the destructor which is the function that frees the resources.