Deriving from STL containers

From:
Adrian <nntp@bluedreamer.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
31 May 2007 08:59:07 -0700
Message-ID:
<1180621760.928953.26350@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
If I derive from an stl container I rightly get a warning from lint
that deque destructor is not virtual.

Will this cause any problems if do not derive from Container?
Will it clean up properly or do I have to manually call deque
destructor

Adrian.

#include <stdexcept>
#include <deque>

class SomeClass
{

};

typedef std::deque<SomeClass *> list_t;
class Container : private list_t
{
  public:
    Container() {};
    using list_t::pop_front;
    using list_t::front;
    using list_t::empty;
    using list_t::size;
    void clear()
    {
      for(const_iterator i=begin(); i!=end(); ++i)
      {
        delete (*i);
      }
      list_t::clear();
    };
    void push_back(SomeClass * const obj)
    {
      if(size()>10)
      {
        throw std::runtime_error("much to big");
      }
      list_t::push_back(obj);
    };

    ~Container()
    {
      clear();
    }
  private:
    Container(const Container &);
    Container &operator=(const Container &);
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  Container container;

  for(int i=0; i<9; ++i)
  {
    container.push_back(new SomeClass());
  }

  return 0;
}

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