[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

Michael Torrie torriem at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 22:35:09 EST 2015


On 01/30/2015 04:12 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>> Yes I can tell you haven't used C++.  Compared to C, I've always found
>> memory management in C++ to be quite a lot easier. The main reason is
>> that C++ guarantees objects will be destroyed when going out of scope.
>> So when designing a class, you put any allocation routines in the
>> constructor, and put deallocation routines in the destructor.  And it
>> just works.  This is something I miss in other languages, even Python.
> 
> Python has context managers for that.

Right I had forgotten about that.  That's a good solution for dynamic,
GC languages.




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