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From: stanley@West.Sun.COM (Stanley Friesen [Contractor])
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/02/08
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Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <36BECC3E.E5D1723F@acenet.com.au>,
Geoff Bull  <gbull@acenet.com.au> wrote:
>
>Are you saying that when I want an array of objects
>that I should use an STL abstraction rather than the languages
>built in array type??
>
>This is ridiculous!

Think of vector<> as the built-in array type, and the type declared with '[]'
as an obsolescent feature retained purely for backwards compatibility.

That is much closer to the truth.