Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Overuse of 'auto' Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:36:39 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 48 Message-ID: <87edsvs0js.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8e7fdbea1bc660c36eba0e0212d247ec"; logging-data="437877"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+rKTnc5lMxkOxQgZdV6dDZ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v/O7xQsVho6ZmwAb5IqUofqDxQI= sha1:QdQ/nFKDsOlcm5NlvRRA4CSaOnw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:88072 Juha Nieminen writes: > Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote: >>>Get into your thick skull that just because *you* can understand >> >> Insults when losing argument. Tick. > > Insults? Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but > this is the first time in my life I hear that "thick skull" is an > insult. It just means "stubborn". Unless you think "stubborn" is > also an insult. I am a native English speaker. Yes, "Get into your thick skull ..." is an insult. > I myself can be quite stubborn at times. I don't find that very > insulting. > > Maybe you also have a thin skin in addition to a thick skull... Also an insult. > And this post of yours did nothing to dispel my notion that you are > just arguing for the sake of arguing. Nobody in their right mind > would say that clearer variable and function naming is a bad thing. Nobody here is saying "clearer variable and function naming is a bad thing". Most people here disagree with you about what names are clearer. You now seem to believe that a large number of participants here are disagreeing with you because we're "just arguing for the sake of arguing", that we're ganging up on you and disagreeing with your obviously correct points just because. Is that plausible? Do you think there's something about you personally that induces people to behave this way? There isn't. No doubt some of the counterarguments are influenced by the vehemence of your own arguments, but I haven't seen any indication here that anyone -- including you -- is arguing insincerely. A lot of people here *understand* what you're saying and *disagree* with you. I won't ask you to get that through your thick skull, but please consider the possibility. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for XCOM Labs void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */