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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> They do require "inheritance". That special controlled type is called
>> "class" in C++. You cannot have a destructor for, say, "char *" (you 
>> cannot
>> even derive from it).
> 
> 
> No. You cannot write a destructor for 'char *' because that is a system 
> type,
> and it already has one. Every built-in type has one. If you want to write a
> destructor, it has to be for a type you define. Having to inherit from a
> special type to get finalization is especially cumbersome in a language
> which does not have multiple inheritance.
>