Reason why not to have a DELETE macro for C++

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Personally I prefer the following

template< class T > void SafeDelete( T*& pVal )
{
    delete pVal;
    pVal = NULL;
}

template< class T > void SafeDeleteArray( T*& pVal )
{
    delete[] pVal;
    pVal = NULL;
}

They compile down to EXACTLY the same code in the end.

There may be some odd way you can break the #define system but, personally (And this is probably going to get me groaned 😉 I don’t think its much of a problem.

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