On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 20:11:01 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
c->x and c.x were basically the same. Why not use -> instead
of | ?
Sure, you can do that. Other languages use "->" for pushing
parameters.
But in C/C++ "x->m" is a shorthand for "(*x).f".
C++ also have "and" and "or" as a shorthand for "&&" and "||",
btw. I think "and" and "or" often makes code look more readable,
yet I've never seen them used.
Honestly looking at them side by side, I don't like |, -> is
almost preferable except I sometimes don't hit the > and have
to re-edit it, unlike using ., but that's a minor gripe there.
Yes, I also like arrows for suggesting the direction when you
have pipelines.
Hell why not extend to the rest of the operators? Don't forget
C++'s iostream pushes using very specific low level operations
to do weird things.
The primary issue I have with iostream is that floating point
formatting gets ugly. The "<<" works out ok for iostream in
practice, mostly because it is not common to do bit-shifts in
combination with IO.
And I have to say that I find it ironic that Walter objects to
reusing operators such as "<<" while he is reusing "!" for
templates, which I find waaay more annoying than iostream.
