On Sun, 2005-05-06 at 05:14 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 08:08, fons adriaensen wrote: > > > My aproach to C++ is very simple: I use it as 'C with classes'. No streams, > > no > > STL, no other nonsense. Gives me the best of both worlds - clean objects > > and > > low level. > > > Good answer. I've often wondered why anyone would use vectors.
Because they dynamically resize, easily, and are generally much simpler to work with, perhaps? :) > I always use C arrays in C++. Vectors are slower than molasses in January > (or June for those in the southern half ;-) FWIW, accessing elements in a vector with [] shouldn't be any slower than doing the same on a C array. Not that C++ doesn't still suck.. -DR-
