In the last post (Coding Style: Terse vs Verbose), I laid out some of the arguments for and against a verbose coding style and a terse coding style. Although, I didn’t delve deeply into what I meant by these styles, I hoped the details were less important than the general feel. However, by the end… Read More »
One coding style issues that causes many arguments is the distinction between the Terse/Elegant/Succinct style and the Verbose/Legible/Debuggable style. As usual, each side explains that their style is the only rational choice and that the other approach is obviously wrong. First, let’s look at the two styles to see what they say. In order to… Read More »
One of the things Java programmers seem to really like to hate in C++ is the concept of operator overloading. I have heard this from many Java programmers and seen it written by others. According to many, operator overloading makes C++ impossible to understand because you can’t tell what a piece of code is doing… Read More »