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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 21:48:13 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> On 18 Maj, 10:06, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Is auto_ptr the one where assignment moves the content? "b = a;"
>> means that a is now null and b references the previous content of
>> a?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so, it seems to me that it's the concept that's spectacularly
>> silly!
>
> It has its own very reasonable use case: safe returning dynamically
> allocated objects from functions.

That was the use I'd thought of.