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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Cumbersome Polymorphism
Date: 1997/01/26
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Date: 1997-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
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JPR wrote

> The problems of allocation and deallocation are hidden from the
> Smalltalk programmer (and from the Ada programmer, if you can find a
> garbage-collected implementation of Ada, which isn't easy).  But the


It is perfectly possible to hide allocation and deallocatoin from an
Ada programmer -- just look at Ada.Unbounded.Strings as an example.
Note that this also shows that variable length items can be handled
in a completely transparent manner.