Reason why not to have a DELETE macro for C++

Question

Are there any good reasons (except \"macros are evil\", maybe) NOT to use the following macros ?

#define DELETE( ptr ) \\
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Answer 1

• delete accept a NULL pointer without problem, so the tests are superfluous.
• resetting the pointer to NULL is not always possible, so they can't be used systematically.
• the security they bring is illusory: in my experience, most dangling pointer problems comes from pointers other than the one used to delete.