Minas wrote:
Anyway, who needs to see f(ref x) when you can put your mouse
above the function call and see its declaration? All modern
IDEs support that - and I don't think C# guys use plain text
editors.
People debugging large bodies of code should not be required to
hover the mouse over each and every function parameter for a
second to properly understand structure. People using non-tooltip
text editors have an even harder time.
I think you're missing the point. This code:
int* x;
foo(&x);
at least tells you there's a _potential_ x is being manipulated
rather than just used. We don't need full insight into what's
going on, just a helpful hint which narrows the potential
culprits when debugging.
If fact, it would nice if even reference types where required to
follow similar "is modified in function" semantics, and I have
ideas about that, but I'm not going there right now...
