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On 04/29/2018 09:01 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> I'm familiar with the approach [using containers to avoid manual memory
> management] and it's nice for some purposes, but it still needs a lot of
> attention, and constrains your style quite a lot.

Of course, you should be able to write complex systems without a lot of 
attention, and your style should have no constraints on it at all.

The biggest constraint on style is having to use those finicky control 
structures instead of just having conditional gotos all over the place. Clearly 
the latter, being less of a constraint on your style, is better.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Ditto, you provincial putz?"
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