Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 14:07:48 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav: > "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At the moment, there are two different kinds of connections being > > handled by front-end plugins (which basically accept on a listening > > socket, set up a certain initial state and pass it to the backend): > > AF_INET(6) and AF_BLUETOOTH. The latter won't work with the > > getaddr*-functions or getnameinfo() to format the address, > > so fix getnameinfo() :) > > > I personally don't find this especially beautiful > > why does it need to be beautiful?
No, it doesn't need to be beautiful, of course. But when you use a language that has (slightly) higher type-safety than C, such as C++ (in the form of allowing you to cast pretty much anything to anything, but having to cast _explicitly_ for pointers of different types except for conversion to void*), you're bound to not understand your code after some time of letting it rest. And, it makes the code harder to read (at least if you stick to C++'s standard *_cast<>() templates) and debugging it more painful. That's what I'd call beautiful (as in "minimize the number of casts you need"), but again, I already said that that it's okay if "it's just me." And the actual "dirty" code is hidden away in a framework, anyway, so I hopefully won't have to touch that for quite some time. ;-) -- Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
