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Subject: Re: [TUHS] C and C++ Regrets
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The two things I'd wish had happened in C or C++

1.   That when they fixed structs/unions to have proper assignment and
function argument and return behavior (i.e., making them full-fledged
types), that they would have done the same for arrays.   This inane "trea=
t
it like a pointer" has always been problematic.

2.   That the default behavior in C++ is to *ALWAYS* initialize an object=
,
even if it is POD, no matter how it is allocated.