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RE: Why I love C++ so much.


On 20 February 2008 20:52, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> is just soooooo much easier and more self-consistent and less typing than
>> 
>>   "%08x", x
> 
> Oh, don't be so hard on C++.  I mean, sure, some things are a little
> clunky, but it makes up for it with such interesting compile errors:
> 
> example.cc:21: conversion from `double' to non-scalar type
>
`map<vector<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_templat
e<true,0>
>>
,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template
<true,0>
>> > >
>>
>,set<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true
,0>
>>
>,less<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<tru
e,0>
>> >
>>
>,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_templat
e<true,0>
>> > >
>>
>,less<vector<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_templ
ate<true,0>
>>
>,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_templat
e<true,0>
>> > > >
>>
>,allocator<set<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_tem
plate<true,0>
>>
>,less<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<tru
e,0>
>> >
>>
>,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_templat
e<true,0>
>> > > > > >' requested              
> 
> Brian


  Hey, you cheated, that's been run through that utility that turns C++
gibberish error messages into nice clear clean simple ones, hasn't it?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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