Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!cca!alex
From: alex@cca.CCA.COM (Alexis Layton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: resizing operator
Message-ID: <24568@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 06:48:22 GMT
Reply-To: alex@cca.UUCP (Alexis Layton)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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One of the language features that I find missing in C++ is some built-in
support for vector allocation resizing, such as a resize operator.  Many
of my programs make use of dynamically changing allocations.  When they
were written in C, realloc was used.  It is possible to specify the memory
allocation function for new and delete, which (presumably) would allow one
to implement a realloc-type function.  But it would be a cleaner interface
to have language support, probably like

	resize[count] pointer;

which would be similar to vector delete.

Has any thought been given to this area?  Am I missing something obvious?