Re: Can we use delete like this?
Goran Pusic <goranp@cse-semaphore.com> wrote:
On Aug 19, 9:59?pm, Juha Nieminen <nos...@thanks.invalid> wrote:
Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet <alf.p.steinbach+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
Instead of allocating a raw array with 'new', use a std::vector:
? Fine until you need to share the array with more than one object.
If you need to share, you give a reference (perhaps an optional
reference a.k.a pointer) to vector to another object. There's no
difference whatsoever. And I mean 0.
There are at least two differences:
1) A minor one, but still a difference: A pointer-to-std::vector instead
of a pointer-to-raw-array adds one extra indirection step. In most cases
it doesn't matter, but it adds to the overall complexity of the program.
2) While the word "shared" can have multiple meanings, I used it with the
meaning "shared ownership", which implies that the last owner destroys the
array. The last owner might not always be the same that created the array.
You can't achieve this with references/pointers in C++. You can achieve it
with smart pointers, but than you could just as well have a smart array
pointer instead of a smart-pointer-to-std::vector, saving you the extra
indirection step.
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