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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?