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From: mikem@otc.otca.oz (Mike Mowbray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: THE best C++ book: a summary
Message-ID: <1357@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 19 Mar 90 00:38:14 GMT
References: <8546@chaph.usc.edu>
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In article <8546@chaph.usc.edu>, jamin@nunki.usc.edu (Sugih Jamin) says:

 > For those using Stroustrup's, Hansen's _C Answer Book_ was recommended
 > as a good workbook companion by two people.

I think the list examples given in Hansen are dangerous. They don't seem to
handle destructors for derived list objects correctly. The doubly-linked
example also doesn't seem to delete the list items if the list is deleted.

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