Re: Why use new?

From:

Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:10:15 +1300

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Paul Brettschneider wrote:

James Kanze wrote:

Paul Brettschneider wrote:

I guess with the advent of containers with non-copyable
elements, more and more of those new() calls will be hidden in
std::container::insert() calls and the like.

I'm not sure what containers you're talking about, but I very
much doubt that any of the calls to new would be found in their
insert() functions.

In the scenario I described (a very, very frequent one for
servers, GUI's and probably a number of other applications), the
new is in response to an external event, as is the delete.
Containers don't repond to external events.

My idea was that you will have code like this (totally made up this moment):

Handle open_window(const std::string &title)
{
   extern std::map<Handle, Window> Windows;
   Handle h(Windows); // Generates unique handle
   Window &w = Windows[h];

   w.set_title(title)
   return h;
}

Here the new() is hidden in operator[] of std::map. IMHO new and delete are
low-level functions (or call them operators) and application developers
should not have to care too much about them. But maybe I'm just silly?

Where? How is the above any different from

std::map<unsigned,std::string> strings;

std::string& s = strings[42];

There may well be a call to new, but it will be within the constructor
of std::string.

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