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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 06:34:21PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> How is this different from the free happening explicitly in the remove
> function?

It's not.  The real problem is that people don't understand life time
rules and expect magic interfaces to fix it for them.