Re: ? about C++

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> begin  Dimitri Maziuk  quotation:
> 
> > Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C.
> > 
> > 1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector<> or equivalent)
> 
> Of course, the behavior of vector::operator[] is undefined if the index
> is invalid, which is sort of weird, since vector::at() does the right
> thing.

LOL. I learned something today.

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Oh well. I guess it's just as well that I don't do much C++
nowadays. The code I get to deal with is usually poorly written
C with a few cout's (yes, there are printf()'s too), often preceded 
by "// debug", and occaisonally, a "class ... {...}" around the whole 
thing. Can't help but wonder who taught these people... and the OP's
code snippet definitely looked like he has the same teachers.

Dima
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