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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Counter-proposal for variable arrays
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:33:07 +0200
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> After all the whole idea behind STL containers is to provide arrays which
>> C++ does not have!
> 
> Huh? C++ has arrays,

Pointer arithmetics is not yet an array.

> and the STL containers are not particularly
> array-like.

For the reason above. I do not consider lists because they never were a
challenge, even in FORTRAN (:-)). The arrays are. Now, with OO stuff it
becomes worse and worse, because an inability to have an array of
class-wide elements forces use of all sorts of pointers.

> Maybe vector, if you squint a little.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de