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Re:Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection by rycomb on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:10PM (#48909003)
Is there another option? Or were you asking if it leaks memory?

Maybe you were asking if it implements custom destructors? GC?

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Re:Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection by schaefer on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:24PM (#48909253)
> Or were you asking if it leaks memory?

yeah,

If variable c where of type void* instead of duck<Container>, the assignment on line 13 would leak the memory used by the vector<int>.

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