[TUHS] v7 K&R C

[John P. Linderman]

I never liked call by reference. When I was trying to understand a chunk of
code, it was a great mental simplification to know that whatever a called
routine did, it couldn't have an effect on the code I was trying to
understand except through a returned value and (ghastly) global variables.
Operator overloading is far worse. Now I can't even be sure code I'm
looking at is doing what I thought it did.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:38 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 2020, Paul Winalski wrote:
>
> > Absolutely.  The projects that I ran effectively used C++ as a
> > stronger-typed version of C.  A small subset of C++ features were
> > allowed, but among the prohibited features were:
>
> [...]
>
> > o operator overloading
>
> [...]
>
> I never could figure out why Stroustrup implemented that "feature"; let's
> see, this operator usually means this, except when you use it in that
> situation in which case it means something else.  Now, try debugging that.
>
> I had to learn C++ for a project at $WORK years ago (the client demanded
> it), and boy was I glad when I left...
>
> -- Dave
>
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