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- From: mwm@roadnet.ups.com (Marlin Meier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Pointers are hacks in c++ (portablity hackers etc)
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 22:26:16 GMT
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- In <vpwa1m6wu.fsf_-_@jlbaker.async.csuohio.edu>, jabaker@grail.cba.csuohio.edu (jason) writes:
- >In article <EJH.96Mar19163745@larry.gsfc.nasa.gov> ejh@larry.gsfc.nasa.gov (Edward Hartnett) writes:
- >> Hmmm. Most of what I would call hacked code is not code that violates
- >> the standard by depending on undefined behaviour, but rather code that
- >> does weird (but usually standard conforming) things with memory or
- >> pointers.
- >
- >
- >I'm posting because I think I see a disturbing trend in c++.
- >Programmers seem to have an unreasoning fear of pointers in general:
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- I have found a book that deals with c++ pointers and pointer fear
- exclusivly. 464 pages about pointers and memory management! This is
- what I have been looking for. The book is:
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- C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management
- by Michael C. Daconta
- published by John Wiley & Sons
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- Some chapters I an especially glad to see are about pointers to pointers,
- the this pointer, and pointers to functions.
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- Marlin Meier
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