On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > It came to my attention that some people are using raw pointers to pass > out-arguments (e.g. bug 69366). In my understanding, we use pass by > reference for out arguments when they have to be modified in callees. > > If there's no objection, I'm going to file a bug & upload a patch to state > this explicitly in the style guideline. > Could you explain why? Is it to document the nullity of the out-param? I personally find pointers for out parameters to be appropriate in many situations. It makes the side effects of manipulating the parameter more obvious, and it provides a clear way for the caller to indicate that they don't care about a certain out parameter. It sounds like you have reasons to prefer the opposite behavior. - James > > Best, > Ryosuke Niwa > Software Engineer > Google Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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