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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.