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I cannot for my life remember the argument order, so I write the manual code and let IntelliJ convert it.

• josefx 3y ago
  Doesn't autocomplete show the arguments? I usually use Netbeans when I write Java, so no idea if InelliJ is just that bad.
  • ozarker 3y ago
    IntelliJ definitely shows the arguments lol
  • gdprrrr 3y ago
    It shows the argument names and even highlights the current one where the cursor is. But sometimes my thought process is just different.
• nayuki 3y ago
  In Java, it's src array, src offset, dest array, dest offset, length. It's a natural order of from, to. It's C memcpy() that's the odd one out by putting the destination before the source.
  • thwarted 3y ago
    memcpy argument order matches the left-to-right arrangement of assignment. lhs=rhs is rhs is copied to lhs. memcpy(lhs,rhs) is the contents at rhs is copied to lhs.
  • tom_ 3y ago
    British people generally don't, but Americans very often use "to...from".
    • nisse72 3y ago
      They do, and it's jarring! Even though I find memcpy and friends to be perfectly logical using the assignment analogy suggested by thwarted, I often need to re-read english sentences written that way.