From 779268853936522557 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a10702d4a7db0a94 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.14.113.39!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "Lucas Galfaso" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why no size_t to ::operator delete? Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:58:40 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 25 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <1166881269.632200.107290@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com> References: <12omt8jit7rl379@corp.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166881276 755 127.0.0.1 (23 Dec 2006 13:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.232.7.150; posting-account=EiBFIA0AAABUIo4gheGArqTD1NeHjn3L X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:5142 Scott Meyers wrote: > Can someone explain to me why having the "normal" operator delete take a > size_t is impractical? > The answer is simple, there is nowhere to store this information, if you need it, you store it. This is just another example of C++ of not to make everybody pays for what just a few need. Regards, Lucas > Thanks, > > Scott > > ] --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]