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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 17:13:02 07/28/03

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On July 28, 2003 at 19:00:41, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>Gerd, references is enough for me, to avoid C++. In the "old days", when I read
>code with a function call, like foo(a), I was sure, that a will be the same
>after the function call, than before. With C++, I cannot be sure anymore. If I
>want to make a changable by a function call, I use &a in C. All pretty much self
>documenting. Not anymore in C++.

Why not just make the function take a const reference when you know the function
won't modify it? I guess the problem still exists if you are working in a group
and someone else writes the function you are to be using. Even so, you could
check the function declaration, which I would think a good programmer would do
before using a function for the first time.



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