nimak247 wrote: > > If I may ask a follow up question to what some of you mentioned: > > Several of you who replied seem to feel that you shouldn't use > pointers in c++ anymore... Was this more of a statement about how > everything is going managed code (frameworks like .Net, JVM, etc) vs > native? Or did you mean that you should just use classes and pass them > as objects? > > If I can be honest, without the risk of being flamed by whoever said that, do not listen to him about not using pointers in C++! Maybe he meant for you to use references instead, but I still stand by my statement. You have to be an absolute *idiot *to say that you shouldn't use pointers in C++ (I'm talking to whoever originally said not to use pointers in C++). Good luck trying to use any decent C++ API without using pointers. ;)
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