[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8683) remove specvec?

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8683 >
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> Specvec (utility/specvec*) is unused.  I didn't even know it existed
> until Raimar pointed it out to me today.  It says that it creates
> variable-sized type-safe arrays ("what you end up doing when you don't
> use C++").  But C99 already has variable-sized typed arrays.  So it
> should never be used.
>
> Can we remove it?

I made that, but turns out it wasn't used anywhere. Sure why not. If
someone wants a similar functionality it can always be added back. IMHO
it has poor functionality compared to speclists, hence why it is not used.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa