Thread: Overloaded assignment

This is debatable argument, and there are people of both sides, but Bjarne, the creator of C++ thinks that this is the wrong approach, and as do I and others on this forum. You should not have to learn how to do C stuff in C++ unless you absolutely must, and as a beginner, that is not something you must. IMO, you should concentrate on writing good, safe and flexible C++ programs until you get experienced enough to delve into deeper stuff.
Learn to harness C++ features and STL, and don't use low-level stuff such as new, delete and char* unless you absolutely must.

Now you don't need new, delete, assignment operators, copy constructors, destructors and all that stuf

do you mean, almost never ?
c'mon, why do they write books like that then? I read the ACCU review from your link. It was very disappointing because everything that is written is true.

Originally Posted by thames

do you mean, almost never ?
c'mon, why do they write books like that then? I read the ACCU review from your link. It was very disappointing because everything that is written is true.

There are some who believe in bottom-up approaches (start from hardware, then go up). There are some who just don't know C++ good enough (some are mostly C programmers). Some have been taught C++ incorrectly (for example, reading a bottom-up book or simply one that doesn't teach STL). Some are ones that have been taught an older version of C++ and haven't bothered to keep themselves up-to-date. And so on.
The world isn't perfect.

Don't want to hijack a thread but Elysia your link went to a review that said.

"This book puts the using namespace std globally in headers which should NEVER be done."

This concerned me as I have done so in the past. In a case such as needing to declare vectors in the class declaration. As with all beginners I only did this because I did not know better and had never run into any issues with this (probably because I didn't use any other namespaces in my program). Where would be the appropriate place to put the using namespace? Would it be within the class itself?