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   On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:55:05 AM UTC+1, alexo wrote:   
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   > > At the end of main head goes out of scope, head is a Node*, and   
   > > pointers have trivial destructors. If you want the list to be   
   > > destroyed, you can do one of the following:   
   > >   
   > > explicitly delete head to make the list go away.   
   >   
   > done.   
   >   
   > and it correctly called the Node destructor for each element of the   
   > list, without having to cross the list and delete Nodes   
   > individually. As Ian Collins suggested me to do.   
   > I thought I made some error in building the list.   
   >   
   > I didn't explicitly called delete on head because I thought head going   
   > out of scope, the delete operator would have been called   
   > automatically.   
      
   Why did you think that? There is NO documentation that would claim such a   
   thing, and there are LOADS of documentation that would say "if you do a new,   
   you must do a delete (eventually, somewhere, only once ;-)).   
      
   Word of advice: always ask yourself "what would I need to do had it been plain   
   C here?" In this case, C equivalents are e.g. malloc and free. Called malloc?   
   Must call free!   
      
   G.   
      
      
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