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[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:
> I don't understand the appeal of this. I mean that means you'd have to 
> write your own Array class to do anything about arrays anyway. So why 
> not actually integrate it with the language?

I think the main appeal is that the language then behaves almost like C, and lot of people know C already, so they don't have to learn more things, like using a reference counting GC (and its traps) too.

Bye,
bearophile