On Thursday, 30 October 2014 at 05:54:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 30 October 2014 at 05:01:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
templates and metaprogramming completely. I was skimming over
Google's
C++ style guide today, for example, and was shocked to
discover that
they discourage the use of templates and frown on
metaprogramming, among
other shocking things (like prohibiting exceptions, using
2-space
indentation, and other "interesting" things [1]).
The Google cppcon presentation was pretty clear on this, e.g.:
...
3. No non-const ref parameters to functions, use pointers. They
want a visible "&" at call site for output parameters. e.g.
"read(&var)" so that you don't have to look the function up in
the docs.
Coming from a Quick/Turbo Basic/Turbo Pascal background, I never
understood the C culture about function parameters.
Just another example of C being unsafe.
--
Paulo
