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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:21:44 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: destructors for C++ classes.
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At 10:36 AM 2/27/99 GMT, you wrote:
>        vector<string> words;

The vector deals with its own destruction. you would only need a

delete [] words

if you had used your own dynamic allocation, with

  string *words;

...

  (in constructor)
  words = new string[some_number];


As it is you don't need any destructor in that class since you don't have
any dynamically allocated pointer members. (The vector's destructor deals
with that and is called automatically.)
Also, you almost never need to explicitly call a destructor.
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