Is this a safe way to empty a list in Golang?

Question

An traditional way:

// Clear all elements by iterating
var next *Element
for e := l.Front(); e != nil; e = next {
    next = e.Next()
    l.Remove(e)
}

How about using:

l.Init()

Is it a safe way that will not causing any memory leak?

Answer 1

From http://golang.org/pkg/container/list/#List.Init

Init initializes or clears list l.

A side note, a slice is probably better for most usage scenarios, check Slice Tricks.