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From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 11:27:37 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 18, 8:03 am, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> jhc0...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Oh, panlinguistic guru, I'd like to see you try to implement "STL" in
> > C! I wonder if you'll go for macros or void* type casts with type
> > sizes as explicit parameters. How will you implement automatic memory
> > management and deep copy semantics for arbitrary user-constructed type
> > parameters?
>
> I start with:
>
> typeset struct Vector Vector;
>
> Vector* Create_Vector(int Element_Count, size_t Element_Size);

Already, this can not do what "vector<my_type> v(n)" does.

> and take it from there. Won't have the same syntax - but the semantic is
> doable.

That's because you don't understand what RAII is, or how it interacts
with "return" and exceptions.