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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:51:04 -0400
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Jano wrote:
> correct me in that case.

OK.

> IIRC, in C++ you must destroy (delete?) the object to get the destructor 
> called. So, even if you have a carefully built chain of destructors, if 
> at some point you forget to destroy the root, you're leaking.
> 
> In Ada, when an object goes out of scope (assuming it has been created 
> in the stack and not with the "new" operator), it's automatically 
> finished so you have one less thing to care about.

Both in C++ and in Ada, a stack object is finalized/destructed
automatically when its scope is exited.

I believe, but I'm not sure, that in Ada if a pointer *type* (not
a pointer object) goes out of scope, then all objects of that type
are deallocated.