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Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> writes:
>> Will look there, but those kinds of containers are more useful with GC.
> I think you are missing the point.  Many things in Ada is done without
> allocating with 'new' And things that are, if OO, may inherit from
> Ada.Finalized, which gives a call to the objects' 'Finalize' method
> where deallcation - if necessary - can be done.  So, the user does not
> fiddle with new/free.

Right, that's sort of like C++ RAII.  But GC gives you much more
flexibility.  For example, maybe you want to allocate a container and
then pass it to another thread to work on it.