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From: EACONS@MTUS5.BITNET (Ernie Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this picture (or am I slow?)
Message-ID: <90284.103929EACONS@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 11 Oct 90 15:39:28 GMT
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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Thanks to all who responded by email to my question.  The message I heard
over and over was about the = operator being overloaded to take care of
deallocating the memory.  That is what I had been thinking, but the book's
example did not redefine it.  I'm relieved that I wasn't just being paranoid.
I'm a little disappointed with the text, they shouldn't have done something
as negligent as that, even for an example.  At least they could have put a
note afterward pointing out the flaw.  Anyway, I'll shelve that one for now
and just work with my Lippman text.  Thanks again everyone.

Ernie
EACONS at MTUS5(bitnet), EACONS@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu, ejanders@symmetry.cs.mtu.edu