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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Array is an old well known concept, which requires no baroque kinks.

There are many old and well-known concepts.
Good programming languages allow you to build
them yourself instead of providing special
and unique support.

> Right, but not in C++, which is unable to handle unconstrained objects on 
> the stack.

True enough for now. I suspect C++ will eventually adopt a
form of C99's variable-length arrays, and then it will be
possible. Where supported, something could probably be
cobbled together with alloca.

> But as you said it should not be slow.

OO-style inheritance is the wrong concept for this.

> your nasty proxy class will show itself.
 > you will have to make it derived

Nope. The function will be a generic, instantiated
automatically on the proxy class.