Thread: This has really anoyed me

Originally Posted by two31d

Well... It's just as easy to write int = int + 1, instead of int++... What's the big deal?

Code:

char *v = "this is a C style string";
int sc = 0;

while (*v++)
{
    ++s;
}

vs.

Code:

char *v = "this is a C style string";
int sc = 0;

while (*v)
{
    v = v + 1;
    s = s + 1;
}

Although the two are computationally equivilent, the first is far more concise. If the instructors don't want you to use shorthand, why the heck are they teaching C++ in the first place? Do they skip over the use of "cout << variable" because students might confuse it with left shift operations?

The example is trivial, but I have other things to do.