[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

What I've been made to understand is that C++ protects the environment from the
programmer.  IMHO, that's absurd and falls right in line with the "Microsoft
Think-4-You" mentality.  What that says is that you can write crap with C++ that
won't usually break the machine...  well, maybe...

There is no substitute for thinking and hard work.

"Michael E. Caloroso" <analoguediehard at att.net> wrote:
>Which is a great feature is you want reentrant functions, which 1) is 
>not very often and 2) consumes memory each time you build a data 
>structure.  This is a no-no in embedded applications because it leads to 
>bloatware.
>
>I'm all for C's convention of call-by-reference for functions.  It's 
>much easier on memory resources.  Most applications do not need the 
>sophisication (or obfuscation depending on your POV) that C++ offers.
>
>MC
>
>ChristianH wrote:
>> not quite, in this case the struct references a function, it does not
>> contain it. The point is that in 
>> 
>> Christian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:23:21 +0100 (CET) Rainer Buchty wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>>Want an explanation that makes C++ sound good?
>>>>
>>>>"C structs that can contain functions".
>>>
>>>Uhm... C structs can contain functions, even without ++. How about
>>>something like this:
>>>
>>>typedef struct mc68cmd_s
>>>{
>>>        char *mask;
>>>        char *mnem;
>>>        char *para;
>>>        int (*callback)(dispc_t *pc, mc68cmd_s *cmd, int datas[], char *str);
>>>        int flags;
>>>} mc68cmd_t;
>>>
>>>People just dislike pointers nowadays :)
>>>
>>>Rainer
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>

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