Declare class pointer with or without new

[Joeman]

of course minimizing memory leaks is very important, but if you can't keep your programming from leaking memory, c++ isn't right for you. the new operator in c++ plays a very important role in its design. polymorhpic classes wouldn't even be the same without new.

Here is some stupid code

char* Str = "Wow";
delete [] Str;

isn't that just great? or

char* Str = new char[100];
free( Str );

or

char* Str = (char*) malloc( sizeof( char ) * 100 );
delete [] Str;

or

shared_ptr<char> Str ( new char[100] );

or

template<class T> inline void destroy(T*& p) { delete p; p = 0; }
char* Me = new char[100];
destroy( Me );

or

void m( char* p )
{
    delete [] p;
    p = new[100];
}

All those examples will be undefined behaviour I seen worser code than memory leaks . How about memory corruption?

int t[100];
t[100] = 0;

int *t;
*t = 100;

char Str[] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o' };
cout << Str << endl;

c++ is not a safe language, so it use wisely. the list can go on for miles