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In article <9vvopp$gm2$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>BTW: I'm looking at the code & hacking some little demos just to understand
>how it will work. What I seem to be missing is some kind of destructor. Some
>version of "procedure Destroy (Target : in out List) ;" seems like it would
>be in order. Or do you have some other preferred method of clearing out a
>list? (I'd rather not iterate over the list and remove the elements
>individually just to clear a list prior to its next usage...)

When do you need to actually deal with a null list? If its just a matter of
reusing the list object for a new set of values, then you can do that by using
one of the constructor functions.

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