🚀 go-pugleaf

This is common in C:

#define free(X) { free(X); X=0; }

You could do something similar in C++ as:

void operator delete (void*& p, size_t s)
{
   ::delete p;
   p = 0;
}

but the standard definition is:
void operator delete(void* p, size_t);

Why is that?
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