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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/06/04
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Ted Dennison wrote:

> That'd be quite a stretch, as its a reserved word. You might as well say 
> "type"
> ... "is" is a function call.

I would disagree, as there are implied semantics for "new", but none for
"type". The matter is irrelavent though, as static calls to "new" can 
be optimised away to preallocated memory (this was mentioned in c.l.a.
some 6 - 12 months ago).


Dale