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use of auto to deduce types, use of range based for-loops? seems like fairly modern c++ to me.

by zabzonk 4y ago

creativenolo 4y ago
I wouldn’t say these are a special sauce that C++ has to make these Platonic solids.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  no, but they are modern c++ constructs. the title of the post did not imply that the article was about some bizzaro means of constructing the solids using template meta-programming, or such. many c++ programmers wish that people would not do such things - not everything needs to be calculated at compile-time.
  - rom-antics 4y ago
    for (auto f : mesh.faces(v)) vertices.push_back(fvertex[f]); What is so bizzaro about this? For loops and `auto` are both pretty standard features for a programming language.
    - kccqzy 4y ago
      GP is saying many wish that people won't use template meta-programming. You quoted a bog standard piece of code that doesn't use template meta-programming.
      - rom-antics 4y ago
        Yeah, that is bog standard code. All the code in the post is. I'm just trying to figure out why we're complaining about template meta-programming, because I didn't see any in TFA and I sure didn't see any code that deserved being called bizzaro.
        zabzonk 4y ago
        i didn't call it bizzaro, creativenolo was observing about it not using C++ special sauce, which i took to mean strange template stuff
    - zabzonk 4y ago
      modern c++, as i said in the post you are replying to though maybe emplace_back?
s9w 4y ago
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jcelerier 4y ago
both these features are older than the Go, Rust and Swift programming languages, can we stop calling them modern? I started learning C++ when I was 11-12 years old, if I was born the day of the C++11 release standard I would already have started learning it by then
einpoklum 4y ago
There are probably dozens of languages with "for each" loops, and plenty of languages where you don't have to restate the return type of a function (e.g. "with x as foo() do" or "let t = foo()" and such).
- zabzonk 4y ago
  so what? you complained that no c++ "special sauce" was used. i don't really know what that is, but i pointed out that the article did use modern c++

use of auto to deduce types, use of range based for-loops? seems like fairly modern c++ to me.

creativenolo 4y ago

I wouldn’t say these are a special sauce that C++ has to make these Platonic solids.

zabzonk 4y ago
no, but they are modern c++ constructs. the title of the post did not imply that the article was about some bizzaro means of constructing the solids using template meta-programming, or such. many c++ programmers wish that people would not do such things - not everything needs to be calculated at compile-time.
- rom-antics 4y ago
  for (auto f : mesh.faces(v)) vertices.push_back(fvertex[f]); What is so bizzaro about this? For loops and `auto` are both pretty standard features for a programming language.
  - kccqzy 4y ago
    GP is saying many wish that people won't use template meta-programming. You quoted a bog standard piece of code that doesn't use template meta-programming.
    - rom-antics 4y ago
      Yeah, that is bog standard code. All the code in the post is. I'm just trying to figure out why we're complaining about template meta-programming, because I didn't see any in TFA and I sure didn't see any code that deserved being called bizzaro.
      - zabzonk 4y ago
        i didn't call it bizzaro, creativenolo was observing about it not using C++ special sauce, which i took to mean strange template stuff
  - zabzonk 4y ago
    modern c++, as i said in the post you are replying to though maybe emplace_back?

s9w 4y ago

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jcelerier 4y ago

both these features are older than the Go, Rust and Swift programming languages, can we stop calling them modern? I started learning C++ when I was 11-12 years old, if I was born the day of the C++11 release standard I would already have started learning it by then

einpoklum 4y ago

There are probably dozens of languages with "for each" loops, and plenty of languages where you don't have to restate the return type of a function (e.g. "with x as foo() do" or "let t = foo()" and such).

zabzonk 4y ago
so what? you complained that no c++ "special sauce" was used. i don't really know what that is, but i pointed out that the article did use modern c++