On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 20:21:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 20:13:58 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
Both of these, however, show only that he doesn't seem to
personally like multiple pointer types (and consequently
doesn't seem to have any interest in working on them himself);
that's not the same as him claiming that it "is a disaster"
(in general, which is what you were implying).
There are other threads. This is a recurring topic...
To be fair, C++ effectively has multiple pointer types too with
raw pointers, unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr. However, each
of the extra ones has a unique purpose and are opt-in. As a
result, people happily use them when it makes their lives easier.
By contrast, C++/CLI (I'm more familiar with that than managed
C++) has pointer to managed heap and pointer to unmanaged heap.
The concepts overlap more.
