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From: Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
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On May 16, 4:42=A0pm, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In Ada RAII is realized with controlled types. They are severely
> broken in that they are intrusive in the type hierarchy and they burn
> the whole budget for implementation inheritance,

No, this is wrong.  You can add in Controlled-ness as far down the
hierarchy as you like, by adding a controlled component.

Furthermore, if you blow your budget in Ada, then you blow in C++ too,
since invoking Finalization in Ada is the same as invoking a dtor in C+
+.