confused about resizing array in Python

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-02-04, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
>> How about the traditional programming languages like C, Pascal
>> or C++?
>
> For a start they don't have a built in list type.  C and Pascal
> don't even have one in the standard library.  C++ has STL
> vectors and if you, the programmer, decide to store pointers in
> it instead of structures or objects then you have something
> like Python's list type.

You need to store some form of smart pointer (rather than a bare
pointer) in C++ standard containers in order to avoid heart, head
and stomach aches. A reference counted pointer type will come
fairly close to Python semantics.

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