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    New is relative, as it was already in the 2011 standard. Also, the second demo is obviously not C++. Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 16:30
  • An alternate solution if you want to use a single exit point would be to set a flag longerLength = true, then return longerLength. Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 17:48
  • @Deduplicator Why isn't the second demo C++? I don't see why not or am I missing something obvious? Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 18:59
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    @Rakete1111 Raw arrays don't have any properties like length. If it were actually declared as an array and not a pointer, they could use sizeof, or if it were an std::array, the correct member function is size(), there isn't a length property. Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 19:14
  • @IllusiveBrian: sizeof would be in bytes... The most generic since C++17 is std::size(). Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 19:51