deprecated delete and manual memory management

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:37:49 -0400, so <so at so.so> wrote:

> For the confusion part, the real confusion (rather shock) awaits when  
> they get to the part where they see "new" but no "delete".
> We could argue against this all the way, but to every single of us "new"  
> and "delete" are a pair.

For non-garbage-collected languages, yes.  For GC languages, delete is to  
be discouraged (that is what the GC is for).

Java and C# code do not have much use for delete either, so people coming  
 from those languages will feel right at home without the delete keyword I  
would think.

-Steve