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From: Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
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On May 18, 2:27=A0pm, "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's because you don't understand what RAII is, or how it interacts
> with "return" and exceptions.

Right, and Ada gives you the tools to right exception-safe
abstractions, that don't leak memory (or any other resource).  It's
really no different from C++.