Once more unto the C++, dear friends, once more
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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pelnor wrote:
There isn't just a magic "make it go button"?
F5 and a properly configured workspace?
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
Latest toy built for fun: Web Lens Best feature: Full size images when using Google image search.
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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I remember that syntax! << = Move left >> = Move right ^ = Jump :: = Run * = Shoot a fireball
pelnor wrote:
Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea?
Well what fun is a platformer if you can't jump?
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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pelnor wrote:
Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea?
Are you talking about C++/CLI? Then I agree with you.
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pelnor wrote:
Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea?
Are you talking about C++/CLI? Then I agree with you.
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^ is XOR in C++, vs exponentiation in arithmetic. It's retarded.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
Yep! I know that:) but never had any problem with it. But ^ in C++/CLI, also called hat or cap, looks just plain ugly.
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Yep! I know that:) but never had any problem with it. But ^ in C++/CLI, also called hat or cap, looks just plain ugly.
For some odd reason ^ replaced the _gc in the first CLI.
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For some odd reason ^ replaced the _gc in the first CLI.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
replaced the _gc
Which was even worse :).
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
replaced the _gc
Which was even worse :).
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Which was even worse
I dissagree. Underscores are a standard-sanctioned way to extend the language. There was really no reason to break compatibility with Managed C++ and introduce "C++/CLI".
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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pelnor wrote:
Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea?
It's a chinese pointer.
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^ is XOR in C++, vs exponentiation in arithmetic. It's retarded.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
Dan Neely wrote:
It's retarded.
Agreed. Although, in the 600K to 800K lines of C++ I have produced I do not recall ever using that one time. I would have had to look it up if I saw it..
John
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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And if you put “&” before some variable, it will returns a strange combination of letters and numbers. I usually use this cute property for getting random numbers in runtime – works great!
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Which was even worse
I dissagree. Underscores are a standard-sanctioned way to extend the language. There was really no reason to break compatibility with Managed C++ and introduce "C++/CLI".
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Underscores are a standard-sanctioned way to extend the language
I agree with that. But there was no need for that (_gc keyword) in the first place. The whole thing could have been a lot simpler. The code simply looked ugly.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
There was really no reason to break compatibility with Managed C++ and introduce "C++/CLI".
Managed C++ was ugly so was C++/CLI. So no arguments there.
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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It's even better now. As well as pointers and references you now have handles. :) Not that I've ever worked with managed C++ or whatever its called now but I bet it's fun trying to get a handle on pointers to references of pointers to handles. Thing*&^thingy=&somethingNasty; (A while since I did C++ so the above is probably wrong.....)
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I have not written any C++ code since 2001. Now I'm dragging one of my old dll's out of mothballs to add some new features. Some where in those 8 absent years the garbage collector or my brain declared C++ syntax of no use and deleted it for me. Now I'm staring at my code wondering what all the hieroglyphics are for. Let's see there's this * guy. He's got something to do with pointers. It's attached or next to some of my variables. Then there's ::, <<, >>, wait.... wait, it's coming back to me.... "<<" is super less than. Got it moving on. Then I run into ^. Oh come on! Who thought ^ was a good idea? Linker? what is that? You mean I have to tell this linker of yours where to look for things just so I can compile? There isn't just a magic "make it go button"? This is going to be a long day. Better load up on the caffeine.
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I am converting a compiler and language runtime written in C++ into C# - that's fun :^)
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pelnor wrote:
There isn't just a magic "make it go button"?
F5 and a properly configured workspace?
Propery configured was the challenge. I way jumping the old project over several versions of VS. Things did not go as smooth as i hoped for. But with google by my side i can't fail.
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Dan Neely wrote:
It's retarded.
Agreed. Although, in the 600K to 800K lines of C++ I have produced I do not recall ever using that one time. I would have had to look it up if I saw it..
John
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Underscores are a standard-sanctioned way to extend the language
I agree with that. But there was no need for that (_gc keyword) in the first place. The whole thing could have been a lot simpler. The code simply looked ugly.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
There was really no reason to break compatibility with Managed C++ and introduce "C++/CLI".
Managed C++ was ugly so was C++/CLI. So no arguments there.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
ugly
I find all C-based languages to be ugly (some more than others). It is not about beauty, but usefulness. Managed C++ is useful for some scenarios and that's what matters. I'd rather use beautiful Haskell but it just does not let me get my job done.