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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:39:48 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 09:38:30, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 06:12:34, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On July 28, 2003 at 19:00:41, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>
>>>On July 28, 2003 at 18:26:29, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>>References, function inlining and namespaces are enaugh to use C++.
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>But shouldn't the fact that in C++ things like "a=b+c" or "d->e" can do many
>>more things than a sane mind would expect them to do make up for it again? :)
>
>Absolutely, operator overloading rocks.
>Just try working with vectors and matrices in C :o

That's on the one hand.

On the other hand, there is nothing worse than operator overloading gone bad.
And I really mean it.



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