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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation
Date: 1996/10/27
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 <ROGOFF.96Oct14091421@sccm.Stanford.EDU> <326BBBCA.15AE@watson.ibm.com>
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Date: 1996-10-27T00:00:00+00:00
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"Surely most package that export an access type also export the associated
"free" procedure?
If they do then aren't we getting into nit-picking? Whether it is
provided by the language, or by the implementor of an ADT, it is
there for use by client code.
"

Partly true, and partly not true, but in any case irrelevant to the question,
which was why is new a first class citizen IN THE LANGUAGE, while free is
not!