Cleaning up an STL list/vector of pointers

Question

What is the shortest chunk of C++ you can come up with to safely clean up a std::vector or std::list of pointers? (assuming you have to call delet

Answer 1

It's really dangerous to rely on code outside of the container to delete your pointers. What happens when the container is destroyed due to a thrown exception, for example?

I know you said you don't like boost, but please consider the boost pointer containers.