* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > Does anyone know about a school that teaches people to use > > vector<>, auto_ptr<>, basic_string and references? > > I have no idea what they teach in school these days, but I should think > they would have to teach references if they teach operator overloading.
Not according to the code I get to play with. [ snip ] > The standard auto_ptr<> is an abomination. [ snip ] Well, there's that... I'd argue that garbage collection is very hard to get 100% right anyway, and there are other ways to detect memory leaks... Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. 1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector<> or equivalent) 2. Pointers (Fix: use references, iterators etc.). 3. Forgetting to free() malloc()'ed memory (Fix: use auto_ptr<>, destructors etc.) 4. Using pointers to (hopefully array) (hopefully allocated) (hopefully null-terminated) of char as string data type (see also 1, 2, & 3) (Fix: use std::string) We have a bunch of "C++" code written by CS students here, and I get to support it. Guess which of the "fixes" above one finds in their code? Dima (A: none of the above) -- Tlaloc: What was Elrond's second name? Gruber: Hubbard -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
