Darren New wrote:
> Speaking of RAII and all...
> 
> When an object is stuck into a standard collection in C++, and then the 
> collection goes out of scope, what order is defined on the destructors 
> of the things in the collection? I wouldn't imagine it's the order they 
> were inserted (at least for a random-access type collection).  Does a 
> stack destruct in a different order than a queue does, for example? Does 
> a vector always destruct on increasing indexes?

See if you can discern the order of construction.  The safest 
destruction reverses this order.

Regards,
John

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