From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl Subject: Re: Implementation of C++ To: B DOT S DOT Runnacles AT soton DOT ac DOT uk (B.S.Runnacles) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 15:09:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list) > > Does anyone know whether plans are afoot to implement arrays of > objects under G++. I tried to use a static array of objects of my > own (TIFF support objects), but the compiler apologised very nicely > and said they weren't supported. > Although I'm not a fluent C++ programmer myself, I seem to remember (from one of Bjarne's books) that the C-type built-in arrays (a[]) are not appreciated very much by the C++ folks due to their relative unsafety (no out-of-range checking done). Why don't you use a 'bag' or some similar C++ data structure to gather your objects ? ;-) Pieter Kunst.