On Wed, 19 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > It should be the constructor that allocates the memory; the > destructor that frees it. That way you could rely on having exactly the > amount of memory needed for each class no matter what version of the class > library you use.
Allowing the constructor to allocate the memory would certainly be an idea to consider if you were designing a new language, but it would have a lot of ramifications. You would essentially have to add a layer of indirection throughout the language. It would be hard to consider it an extension of C, as originally intended. I actually would have preferred that they just designed a completely new language, but in that case, it probably would not have become popular. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
