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Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B")

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On Sunday, January 6, 2013 2:22:55 PM UTC-5, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> I was flabbergasted the first time I used an IDE that had the "period
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> completion" feature (or the similar, "left parenthesis"). It made me
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> considering leaving old trusted "vi".
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> The problem with the period is that it only goes one step deep: more
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> steps are needed! Additionally, sometimes the period is not the answer
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> to your travails, when a non-member function is the one that will
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> convert from type "A" to type "B".
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> When I was learning Java, a large number of questions (and time
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> wasted) that I posted were of the form:
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>       "How do I convert [some type] to [some other type]?"
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> The text conversions alone occupy an inordinate amount of time to
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> programmers (just try Google to see what I mean).
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> Some C++ examples:
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> I had been using for a long time this (from Boost::Filesystem):
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>     string somestring = "abc/de";
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>     path p = path(somestring);
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> Only to realize, accidentally, that the conversion is done
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> automatically. The IDE should help you in those cases:
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>     path p = somestring;
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> This one made me kick myself. I used this many, many times:
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>     const char* sometext = somestring.string().c_str();
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> Well, it turns out that this one is just as good:
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>     const char* sometext = somestring.c_str();
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> My question is about R&D done in this particular field. I tried Google
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> but the word "type" is too ambiguous.
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> This problem is very similar to the resolution of Rubik's Cube. Your
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> expression is in some "scrambled" state and you need the computer to
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> tell you -not only any path! mind you- but the shortest path (known as
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> God's algorithm) to the desired type. Exhaustive, aka brute force
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> search can be used: after all, we are not talking Rubik type of steps,
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> most of the time we are 1 or 2 steps away from the conversion.
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> Regards,
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> 
> -Ramon

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How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") "Ramon F. Herrera" <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 11:22 -0800
  Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 11:27 -0800
  Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 11:31 -0800
    Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 11:42 -0800
      Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:06 -0500
        Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 12:16 -0800
          Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:27 -0500
    Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 11:58 -0800
      Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:08 -0500
      Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2013-01-06 17:31 -0600
  Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:04 -0500
    Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 12:05 -0800
      Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:10 -0500
        Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2013-01-06 12:18 -0800
          Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:29 -0500
          Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") lipska the kat <lipskathekat@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-07 08:45 +0000
  Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-01-06 19:12 -0600
    Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 20:29 -0500
  Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-01-07 02:45 +0000
    Re: How to get from A to B (actually, from type "A" to type "B") Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-01-07 14:03 +0000

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