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  • D David Stone

    Well it has to be C or D right? I mean, I read the "Pointers" section in Inside C# so I know what a pointer is. So shouldn't it be C or D? David Stone It seemed similar to someone saying, "Would you like to meet my knife collection?" Ryan Johnston on Elaine's sig

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    it's probably D. but, i've found that i'll run into trouble unless i do it like this: (*it).Foo(); in C, the precedence of "." is higher than that of "*", so *it.Foo() means *(it.Foo()), which is usually illegal. the parens forces the dereference to happen first. -c


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      it's probably D. but, i've found that i'll run into trouble unless i do it like this: (*it).Foo(); in C, the precedence of "." is higher than that of "*", so *it.Foo() means *(it.Foo()), which is usually illegal. the parens forces the dereference to happen first. -c


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      Why not it->Foo(); Joel Lucsy (jjlucsy@ameritech.net)

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        Why not it->Foo(); Joel Lucsy (jjlucsy@ameritech.net)

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        heh. :) yeah, i guess that would work, too. but, i've honestly never seen that in any live code or example: it's always (*it).Foo(); -c


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          Why not it->Foo(); Joel Lucsy (jjlucsy@ameritech.net)

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          That is the whole purpose of -> Ryan Johnston

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            heh. :) yeah, i guess that would work, too. but, i've honestly never seen that in any live code or example: it's always (*it).Foo(); -c


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            Chris Losinger wrote: but, i've honestly never seen that in any live code or example: it's always (*it).Foo(); Are you serious? I have never ever seen someone use (*it).Foo() instead of it->Foo(). Pointers would be so dirty without ->. Ryan Johnston

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            • D David Stone

              Congrats to Christian Graus for thinking up the QOTD. I believe this is the first one I've seen from a CPian. Of course, I can't answer because I haven't a clue when it comes to STL. So I'll just leave the answering of it to the rest of you. :) David Stone It seemed similar to someone saying, "Would you like to meet my knife collection?" Ryan Johnston on Elaine's sig

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              I don't know anything about STL, what is an STL iterator? Having said that the only option that look reasonable is D (although other options are possible if iterators have overloaded operators). Ryan Johnston

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                Chris Losinger wrote: but, i've honestly never seen that in any live code or example: it's always (*it).Foo(); Are you serious? I have never ever seen someone use (*it).Foo() instead of it->Foo(). Pointers would be so dirty without ->. Ryan Johnston

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                Ryan Johnston wrote: Are you serious? yes, 100%. -c


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                  Ryan Johnston wrote: Are you serious? yes, 100%. -c


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                  Wow, interesting... I guess the only difference is one keystroke, but I am just surprised. What kind of programming do you do? Ryan Johnston

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                    Wow, interesting... I guess the only difference is one keystroke, but I am just surprised. What kind of programming do you do? Ryan Johnston

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                    there's probably some deep metaphysical reason why people want to use (*it). instead of it-> . i just do it because that's how i learned it. Ryan Johnston wrote: What kind of programming do you do? a little of everything, but mostly 2d graphics. -c


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                    • D David Stone

                      Congrats to Christian Graus for thinking up the QOTD. I believe this is the first one I've seen from a CPian. Of course, I can't answer because I haven't a clue when it comes to STL. So I'll just leave the answering of it to the rest of you. :) David Stone It seemed similar to someone saying, "Would you like to meet my knife collection?" Ryan Johnston on Elaine's sig

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                      Nemanja Trifunovic
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                      The answer is C) (*it) is the value, so &(*it) is the address of the value. Or did I miss something? I vote pro drink :beer:

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                        Ryan Johnston wrote: Are you serious? yes, 100%. -c


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                        :omg:


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                          The answer is C) (*it) is the value, so &(*it) is the address of the value. Or did I miss something? I vote pro drink :beer:

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                          Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Or did I miss something? No, you are correct. Any other way is less safe.

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                          • C Chris Losinger

                            there's probably some deep metaphysical reason why people want to use (*it). instead of it-> . i just do it because that's how i learned it. Ryan Johnston wrote: What kind of programming do you do? a little of everything, but mostly 2d graphics. -c


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                            Looking into the MSDN can open eyes! iterator overloads operator*. plain and simple. Somehow the STL trys to use references wherever possible.

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                              :omg:


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                              sadly, that used up the last of my "serious" for today. time for beer. -c


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                                The answer is C) (*it) is the value, so &(*it) is the address of the value. Or did I miss something? I vote pro drink :beer:

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                                Correct :D! Altough I believe the questioner ment D).

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                                • C Chris Losinger

                                  sadly, that used up the last of my "serious" for today. time for beer. -c


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                                  lol. :)


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                                  • C Colin Leitner

                                    Looking into the MSDN can open eyes! iterator overloads operator*. plain and simple. Somehow the STL trys to use references wherever possible.

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                                    Colin Leitner wrote: plain and simple what's plain and simple? *it.menuItem // does not compile (*it).menuItem // compiles nicely -c


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                                      Colin Leitner wrote: plain and simple what's plain and simple? *it.menuItem // does not compile (*it).menuItem // compiles nicely -c


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                                      iterator is a struct. now operator* returns the value (if I understood that right). so you need it.operator*().menuItem or (*it).menuItem. This has nothing to do with any pointer syntax.

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                                        iterator is a struct. now operator* returns the value (if I understood that right). so you need it.operator*().menuItem or (*it).menuItem. This has nothing to do with any pointer syntax.

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                                        but it has a lot to do with precedence. overloading an operator, such as "*" doesn't change its precedence. -c


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                                          but it has a lot to do with precedence. overloading an operator, such as "*" doesn't change its precedence. -c


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                                          Yes but '->' won't work at all! You cannot change operator precedence at all, that's correct. a+++++b ;)

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