On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:54:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:14:14AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > Absolutely. In fact, it's probably a good idea to learn C++ without knowing > > C first in that you'll probably be much more comfortable with the style if > > you're not subconsciously viewing it as just "C with some extra stuff". > > I seem to recall the entire point of C++ was to be C with some extra > stuff, as told by the creators. Wouldn't it make sense to think the > same way?
The trouble is the philosophy of the extra stuff is so different from that of the existing stuff that thinking the same way is dangerous. There was a thread recently on what happens if you allocate storage in C++, assign the pointer to another pointer and then free the storage using a different pointer from the one you allocated it with. You can do this in C, but apparently in C++ there are several reasons why it may fail. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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