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From: "Robert Kawulak" <tigrisek@interia.pl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:08:49 +0200
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Hi,

> : Of course C++ has got arrays inherited from C which are the core
> language
> : construct,
>
> Prior to C99, functions had no means to know how many
> floats there were in the "array" argument:
>
> float foo(float a[]);

And that's where the second part of the quoted sentence applies: "and
std::vector<> (...)". In C++, C-style arrays are really meant to be used
mostly for "low-level of abstraction" coding. And the recommended way to
solve your problem is:

float foo(float a[], size_t a_size);

But please don't tell me this is ugly and error-prone etc. It *is*, that's 
why there are std::vector<> and std::valarray<>.

Best regards,
Robert Kawulak