Why do we even need the “delete[]” operator?

Question

This is a question that\'s been nagging me for some time. I always thought that C++ should have been designed so that the delete operator (without brackets) wor

Answer 1

Since everyone else seems to have missed the point of your question, I'll just add that I had the same thought some year ago, and have never been able to get an answer.

The only thing I can think of is that there's a very tiny bit of extra overhead to treat a single object as an array (an unnecessary "for(int i=0; i<1; ++i)" )