Re: Why people use "new" & "delete" too much?!!

From:
Medvedev <3D.v.World@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<9575b4d8-e4d9-4c0b-a4f8-aefe7864ae33@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 5, 11:59 am, red floyd <no.spam.h...@example.com> wrote:

Medvedev wrote:

i see serveral source codes , and i found they almost only use "new"
and "delete" keywords to make they object.
Why should i do that , and as i know the object is going to be destroy
by itself at the end of the app

for example:
class test
{
  public:
       int x;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  test *n= new test;
  .
  .
  ...
  delete n;

return 0;
}
i know that the object created this way is in the heap which have much
memory than stack but why they always define objects that way , why
not just say "test n" and the object will be destroyed by itself at
the end of the program! , instead of using "new" and maybe u will
forget to "delete" at the end


Several reasons.

1. They're coming from Java and they don't know any better
2. They're storing polymorphic objects inside containers
3. They need the lifetime of the object to exceed the scope in which
     it was declared.


how u can use object after it's scope ends!!

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