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Maybe more like C++ without (most) pointers. A coupe of years ago they allowed mutable references in function arguments, so the use cases for passing pointers a

Maybe more like C++ without (most) pointers. A coupe of years ago they allowed mutable references in function arguments, so the use cases for passing pointers around were reduced even further.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
That's it. Not "without objects," but without pointers. One of the things (back then) that made C++ so powerful, was direct memory access. However, I really like style guides. Except the Taligent one: https://root.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/WM/WM_3.html https://root.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoo...
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  "Don't use pointers" was definitely never in the style guide.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
    Well ... like I said, it was a long time ago (I don't know if Google had even made their first hundred billion, yet). I suffer from CRS. You know how us old "boomers" are... Not interested in fighting about it. I'm sure that I'm wrong. Being right buys me absolutely nothing. It's not my wheelhouse.