Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?

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On May 18, 12:03 am, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> >>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> writes:
>
> > Pascal> AFAIK
> > Pascal>     int N;
> > Pascal>     N = <value computed at runtime>;
> > Pascal>     vector<float> v(N);
> > Pascal> Is not C++.
>
> > What do you mean? This is perfectly legal in C++.
>
> #include <vector> is missing for it to become "perfectly legal". This is the
> typical cheat of C++ advocates - selling there standart library as
> languages features.

So if the C++ standard said: "<vector> is included by default", that
would make C++ a better language in your opinion?

> But that is unfair as vector<> can be implemented in any language including
> assember.

Oh, panlinguistic guru, I'd like to see you try to implement "STL" in
C! I wonder if you'll go for macros or void* type casts with type
sizes as explicit parameters. How will you implement automatic memory
management and deep copy semantics for arbitrary user-constructed type
parameters?