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From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<VaGS9.672077$NH2.47101@sccrnsc01>...
> > And the same programmers who leak memory or create dangling pointers
> > with new/delete/malloc/free would do the same thing with
> > new/unchecked_deallocation.
>   "If there's a 'with Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation' on the body, there
> ought to be a 'with Ada.Finalization' on the spec."

Right.  There ought to be.  The same programmers who leak memory
with new/delete/malloc/free are the same programmers who wouldn't
use Ada.Finalization.