Hi, I just wrote a small helper function to clear a container. Well, OK, we already have that, do we? For a container 'cont': cont.clear(); But this doesn't neccessarily free the memory allocated. The "usual" workaround is: Cont().swap( cont ); But Cont (the type of the container) is sometimes rather large and the code doesn't communicate well what I intended. I thus wrote the following small helper: template< typename T > void reset( T& t ) { T().swap( t ); } Would this make a good addition to boost.utility? Any comments welcome... Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Frey aixigo AG - financial solutions & technology Schloß-Rahe-Straße 15, 52072 Aachen, Germany fon: +49 (0)241 936737-42, fax: +49 (0)241 936737-99 eMail: daniel.frey@aixigo.de, web: http://www.aixigo.de