On 2020/01/31 17:38:55, Dan Eble wrote:
> On 2020/01/30 23:22:46, hanwenn wrote:
> > In the lily/ directory
> >
> > git grep 'vector<[^>]\+> &' *c|grep -v const
> >
> > returns 20 results, which is pretty small, given the number of
methods in the
> > code base. A cursory inspection suggests that Mike introduced most
of these,
> and
> > I would have probably suggested to use pointers there too. I would
also change
> > these signatures if would stumble across them while refactoring
something
> else.
>
> Wouldn't this policy tend toward crimes against readability like the
following?
>
> void twiddle_vector(vector<int> *vec)
> {
> if (!vec || vec->empty ())
> return;
>
> for (size_t i = 0; i < vec->size() - 1; ++i)
> {
> if ((*vec)[i] < 10)
> (*vec)[i] = (*vec)[i] + 2 * (*vec)[i + 1];
> else
> (*vec)[i] = (*vec)[i] * 2 - (*vec)[i + 1];
> }
> }
>
> How would you approach that?
you can do a local alias
vector<> &v = *vec;
to aid readability.
https://codereview.appspot.com/577410045/
