> how else could you implement a string class I'm not claiming that it's good C++ code (or good code by any measure) but I imagine those "C with classes" devs

> how else could you implement a string class I'm not claiming that it's good C++ code (or good code by any measure) but I imagine those "C with classes" devs would do something like: my_string* s = new my_string(); s->initialize("hello world"); // ... s->destroy(); delete s;