Cleaning up an STL list/vector of pointers

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For std::list<T*> use:

while(!foo.empty()) delete foo.front(), foo.pop_front();

For std::vector<T*> use:

while(!bar.empty()) delete bar.back(), bar.pop_back();

Not sure why i took front instead of back for std::list above. I guess it’s the feeling that it’s faster. But actually both are constant time :). Anyway wrap it into a function and have fun:

template<typename Container>
void delete_them(Container& c) { while(!c.empty()) delete c.back(), c.pop_back(); }

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