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Subject: Re: "Must instantiate controlled types at library level." Why?
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: 15 May 2004 00:47:32 +0200
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"Xenos" writes:
> Arrays in C/C++ are not first-class citizens and cannot be functions
> parmeters.  Saying foo(int x[]) does not define x as an array type,
> so of course sizeof x will equal sizeof(int*).

Well, I think that that was the whole point Martin was making.  In
Ada, arrays *are* first-class citizens.  However you want to present
things, sooner or later you will have to concede that C++ "arrays"
create whole classes of potential problems which simply do not exist
in Ada.

The std::vector template class is not a first-class citizen, and
therefore inherits all the problems; you may very well have a
std::vector<T>* which really points to an array of vectors, and you'd
be back to square one.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.