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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: a style question: |
| Date | 2015-09-01 08:51 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <d4jt2bFqhdfU9@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Bartc wrote: > On 31/08/2015 20:40, Ian Collins wrote: >> Bartc wrote: >>> >>> But yet, you say this is something returned by a function. So I don't >>> know what the hell it might be. What a language! (If C++ had never been >>> invented, and someone presented something like this, we'd all think it >>> was a wind-up.) >> >> You really should learn to understand something before you start >> slagging it off. If you did, you would either be able to do a much >> better job or you wouldn't need to. > > You don't get it. One problem is that it is harder to understand than it > should be. There are plenty of languages that I've never studied, such > as Ada, Lua, or even Go, that I can follow easily (the code is easy on > the eye too). Do they allow you to create say your own specialised numeric types, or your own specialised associative array? The complexity is there for a reason and you have yet to show how you would avoid it. > But I can't follow C++ because, when people make full use of its > features as they like to do; there is this extra level of indirection > and complexity. Someone can spend a lifetime programming and never need > to overload an operator, yet in C++ every other program seems obliged to > do so! Do they? Mine certainly don't. Yes I have specialised numeric types and associative arrays (JSON types) in my libraries, but they can't be implemented without operator overloading. -- Ian Collins
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