Silly newbie question - Carrot character (^)
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sun Nov 7 07:42:03 EST 2010
In article <slrnidc7r1.138j.usenet-nospam at guild.seebs.net>,
Seebs <usenet-nospam at seebs.net> wrote:
> On 2010-11-07, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> > Any self-respecting C++ programmer would have given
> > up the scavenger hunt by now. Just kept throwing typecasts at your code
> > until it compiles, and move on.
>
> That does not sound like a self-respecting programmer of anything.
Well, maybe I was being a little sarcastic. The real point was that if
you make it hard for people to do the right thing (i.e. look up the
details in the reference manual), you should not be surprised if they do
the wrong thing (i.e. find some way to make it work by trial and error).
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