another example that i had the other day: lets say you have a cache of some sorts, now you keep adding entries to the cache without deleting them, in the end it

another example that i had the other day: lets say you have a cache of some sorts, now you keep adding entries to the cache without deleting them, in the end it blows up because it is out of memory. Now technically it is not a leak, but the result is that of a leak. Now good luck solving that with smart pointers and reference counting, etc.