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On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jason Green wrote:

>> ... unless you ever want to resize, in which case use malloc() and
>> realloc() and explicitly cast the pointers. 
>
>The standard containers will let you resize.

Do you mean the standard classes? Because I'm sure even Bjarne Stroustrup
(sp?) has said otherwise in some tome, but I could be wrong. If so, that
isn't much use if you're not using the standard classes.

I merely wanted to mention it as an /option/, not as a flame. Which is why
I don't particularly want to redirect this to comp.lang.c++, because [a]
they probably only deal with the ANSI recommendation, whatever that is
this week (that sort of , and [b] they've probably had this argument
several times before, initiated with the intention of flaming.

If malloc() has no place in C++, then it's odd that you're still able to
use it.

J-P