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P Moore906 (pmoore906@aol.com) wrote:
: >Yes, but "variety of styles" may very well include using purely the C
: >subset of C++.  Some C++ features are actually pretty stupid, like
: >the 'new' and 'delete' operators that correspond to 'malloc' and
: >'free' but lack anything corresponding to 'realloc'.
: I don't know how you could call new and delete stupid.  Dynamically
: allocating memory for a class and passing arguments to its constructors at
: the same time would be impossible without new and delete!  How could you
: ever say:

: TApplication* MyApp;
: MyApp = new TApplication("My Application");

: without new and delete?

Why bother with doing both at the same time?

MyApp = (TApplication *)malloc(sizeof(TApplication));
create_TApplication(MyApp, "My Application");

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