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Stop Using <> for Generics (soc.me)

submitted 1 week ago by soc@programming.dev to c/programming_languages@programming.dev

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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm assuming static members are bad because globals are bad

"[] for arrays" is because they want to reserve it for generics once <> is retired

I think the oveloading thing is about the c/cpp thing where you can define the same function multiple times in the same namespace which yeah sucks imo

[–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean in c/c++ statics arent really globals, you cant acess the from outsside their scope can you? They just retain their value or am i wrong?

[] for arrays is the thing that has been used forever so why should we not use it annymore?

Overloading is also pretty usefull, overloading class constructors is great. I am not a 40 year experience developer but learning c/c++ i never thought that was so bad.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have no idea about c/c++ statics, does c even have statics? What kind of a scope could statics even have?

I'm very much novice myself and I never liked the idea of trusting the compiler with figuring out the correct overload and neither do I like not being able to tell which version of a function is being called at a glance. Named constructors ftw

[–] nodeluna@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

you can constrain functions with c++20 concepts to ensure the compiler is calling the correct function if you're that worried

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