Why do I listen to my sleep coding self?

[SortaCore]

I once coded a class function in C++ that calls realloc() or malloc(), based on whether "this" points to null. It then deletes this and returns This.

[Lost User]

That's.. kind of dirty

[SortaCore]

Not only that, it calls _msize() on the this pointer and checks against another size parameter for the realloc. The last member in the class was a 0-byte array, for which the _msize() of the pointer minus size of other class members gave the array size.

[john morrison leon]

If you are going tp code in your sleep then choose a language that will better match your fantasies.

[PIEBALDconsult]

Oh my, I've been Osmosian-rolled. :sigh:

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

[Paulo Zemek]

My anti-virus considered it as a trojan horse.

[patbob]

BobJanova wrote:

static inheritance (i.e. static virtual in C# speak), and that's a really useful concept that is missing in C#

Couldn't you use a singleton of some related class hierarchy that implements the "static" code?

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

[Frank Malcolm]

As Gilbert & Sullivan put it (in Iolanthe), When you’re lying awake With a dismal headache, And repose is taboo’d by anxiety, I conceive you may use Any language you choose To indulge in, without impropriety;

[phil o]

Far more often than I would like to :)

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't. "I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK

[Carsten Konig]

if you need vacation/some time off ... well do what you want. I never really dreamed of something like this but I tend to think about "problems" while being close to sleep or exercising. In both cases those great ideas you have seems so good but turn out to be complete bullshit when thinking them through with enough oxygen in the right parts of my brain :D So the only advice I can give: better forget.

[BobJanova]

Well sure, but that's obviously working around a language limitation. If you're making instances of classes that store no state, you should be using static inheritance instead, and the only reason we don't is that it's not supported.