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The unique_ptr destructor is called on scope exit, and there are times you want this earlier before other critical code.

• bluGill 2mo ago
  you can call release or reset as needed if you want the delete to happen early - and if you forget an obscure code path it still gets deleted on scope exit which is probably good enough for that path.
• jmalicki 2mo ago
  That's why you can define your own scope to control that.