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O_o

Have you ever read the rationale for those decisions from long past?

They wanted a means of creating a stack value having no secondary allocation cost with reference semantics in C for the...

O_o

I see.

You'd still get reference semantics which is poorly considered if the thing you are using looks like it should have value semantics.

*shrug*

Well, okay, I'm assuming you are...

O_o

I appreciate that, but I guess I too am "jaded" or something along those lines.

It upsets me to no end how many schools are dumping crap programmers into my field.



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O_o

You make a good point.

@Elysia: Why should the newbie or rcgldr listen to us and not them? Throwing "They are bad." isn't really sufficient; consider giving examples as to why such...

If you didn't want to debate this, why did you defend such bad practices when Salem pointed them out?

I'm being serious here, if you didn't think it was worth discussing, to point out that what...

O_o

1): typedefs for pointers
2): using [uppercase] for typedefs
3): uses "Hungarian" style naming convention

These are indeed examples of "poor practices".

1): Using a pointer directly...