Re: object contruction/destruction in c++, design flaw?

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 14:10

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jbuck@Synopsys.COM (Joe Buck) writes:

>Shouldn't there be a separate auto_array_ptr to handle pointers to arrays
>correctly?

This issue has been discussed by the committee.
I agree with you, but the majority of the committee apparently disagree.
The counter-argument is that you can just use `vector' instead.

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