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Hi! I've looked all through the ARM and I can't find a reason why I
shouldn't be able to do this:

11: template<class T>
12: inline void DeleteArray(T* &pat)
13:     {
14:     if (NULL != pat)
15:         {
16:        delete [] pat;
17:         pat = NULL;
18:         }
19:     }

and call it like this:

30:        double *pad = new double[10];
31:        DeleteArray(pad);

When I compile this with Borland C++ 4.0, it works just fine. When I
compile it with MS Visual C++ 2.0 I get the following error:

    test.cpp(31) : error C2607: 'initializing' : cannot implicitly
    convert a 'double*' to a 'double**& ' that is not const

Who's right? Borland or Microsoft? Is it legal or not?

[[ Your code looks perfectly legal to me.  I'd say it was a Microsoft bug.
	- fjh (moderator). ]]

Thanks,
Rob Chambers
robc@thinkman.com
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