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Martin Krischik wrote:
> How will you do this without using some form of "Unchecked_"?

Why am I limited to not using Unchecked_Deallocation?
This is merely the operation known to C programmers as "free"
and to C++ programmers as "delete". It's used for dealing with
dynamic memory structures, with parts whose lifetime is controlled
explicitly by the program. That's hardly a novel or infrequently
used feature of the language.

I expect that C and C++ programs that don't use free and delete
don't have many dangling references either (although they can
screw up in more ways than Ada can).