total idiot question: +=, .=, etc...

[Alan Gauld]

Reimer Behrends wrote:
> While I'd be the first to agree that C++ is not exactly the epitome of
> language design, I would think that at least the local variables should
> be easy to identify. The only real problem is to distinguish global

Not so. If the method is long(as these were - over 200 lines 
in some cases, mostly initialising huge DCE Data structures) 
you can't see the local definitions. C++ compounds this with 
its ability to declare local variables anywhere in the code
(so a split screen editor doesn't help).

Alan G.

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