std::forwar...orward_list(3)

💖 std::forward_list::~forward_list 💖

okay so bestie, we’re deep in the C++ Standard Libary — yes, that’s the manual name, spelling included 😭 — and the page title is std::forward_list::~forward_list, aka the destructor. The header even truncates it as std::forwar...orward_list(3), which is giving “we ran out of room” energy 💀.

🎀 NAME 🎀

• std::forward_list::~forward_list — std::forward_list::~forward_list

Like, that’s the name, fr fr: std::forward_list::~forward_list is std::forward_list::~forward_list. No notes 💅.

✨ Synopsis ✨

~forward_list();  (since C++11)

So the destructor is ~forward_list();, and it’s been a thing since C++11 ⭐.

It destructs the forward_list. The destructors of the elements are called, and the used storage is deallocated. Big important note though: if the elements are pointers, the pointed-to objects are not destroyed — the list handles its own elements and storage, but it does not chase pointers and clean up whatever they point at. periodt 🫶.

🦋 Complexity 🦋

Linear in the size of the forward_list — so yeah, it’s giving “walks through the whole list” realness ⭐.

mwah 💋 — source/version: http://cppreference.com, dated 2024.06.10, page std::forwar...orward_list(3).