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Pascal Obry wrote:
> You are confusiong the language and the libraries. C++ has no vector, no
> array not even strings, just pointers to chunk of memories.

I am not confusing anything. C++ has arrays. And C++ string literals
have type "array[N] of char" where N is determined by the contents of
the literal.

> Ada has array which support 'first 'last 'length 'range slice and more.

C++ has arrays. They all start at 0. C++ doesn't have slices. It also
doesn't have arrays with dynamic sizes (although C99 now does). And
you can't assign them in one statement.

The number of elements in array is available through the classic
sizeof/sizeof construct, or through a prettier template version.

Making obviously wrong statements about C++ is silly.