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Nope, because that is a library class without any language support.

The pedantic comment is a synonymous with proper education instead of street urban myths.




It is a library class, because C++ is a rich enough language to implement automatic refcounting as a library class, by hooking into the appropriate lifecycle methods (copy ctor, dtor).




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