On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:38:21 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 11:00:48 UTC, mist wrote:
When you have a ton of similar lines of code which need to be
edited in parallel, lining them up lets you edit all of them
in one keystroke. Saves me quite a lot of annoying editing in
the long run, actually.
When you have a ton of similar lines of code, you'd better
start thinking about templates or mixins :P
Easy to say in theory, but makes absolutely no sense in many
cases. =P
Example:
boost::unordered_set<int> foo;
boost::unordered_map<int> bar;
and now I want to change 'boost' to 'std' because C++11 came
out.
Templates? Mixins? wtf lol
Another example:
template<class T> struct foo
{
int x;
int operator+(int) const { }
int operator-(int) const { }
int operator*(int) const { }
};
template<class T> int foo<T>::operator+(int x) const { return
this->x + x; }
template<class T> int foo<T>::operator-(int x) const { return
this->x - x; }
template<class T> int foo<T>::operator*(int x) const { return
this->x * x; }
let's say now I want to add a new template parameter, class U, to
all the functions.
If you can teach me how "templates" or "mixins" would solve my
problem here I'd love to know.
