Is there any standard delete functor?

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Published on 2010-04-27T19:33:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 19:33 UTC
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I am looking for a functor that deletes its argument:

template<class T>
struct delete_functor
{
    void operator()(T* p)
    {
        delete p;
    }
};

Is there something like this in std, tr1 or boost?

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