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Deleting a pointer
When deleting a pointer does it have to be set to "NULL" before the delete?
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To add to Jamie's answer. We set it to null after deleting the pointer to prevent accidentally referencing the now empty memory location.
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A pointer is supposed to point to an object.
Settibg it to Nul would be, well, pointless
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