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bind(delete_ptr(), _1)

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std::for_each( tests.begin(), tests.end(), delete_ );

That is nice. I wonder why BLL didn't do this instead of delete_ptr()?

*) Because I didn't think about using trailing "_" until I saw Joel use them with spirit. *) And because what to you call delete_array() ? (overload operator[T] ? for delete_ ? (With actually trying to code this:) std::for_each( tests.begin(), tests.end(), delete_[noop] ); Yours, -Gary-