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This is why I always carry around a hardcopy of the C++ spec so I can pull it out Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney style /s
by foota 3y ago
This is why I always carry around a hardcopy of the C++ spec so I can pull it out Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney style /s
- MR4D 3y agoThat must be heavy! LOL!! For CHF 208, you can buy the reference directly from ISO...all 1,853 pages! [0] [0] - https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html
- foota 3y agoIf anyone tells you C++ isn't a safe language, watch them try to stop a bullet with the C# language spec!
- rzzzt 3y agoECMA-334 (the C# language portions): https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-334/ https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard..., 639 pages ECMA-335 (the Common Language Infrastructure portions): https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-335/ https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard..., 574 pages
- CoastalCoder 3y agoOk, but if I need to be saved from an anti-material round, I'm sticking with C++. Just sayin'
- foota 3y agoI admit I had to shop around for a smaller language spec and chose C# :)
- pjmlp 3y agoNote that those 639 pages are only for C# 6, for further pages the Word documents provided with the SDK are required.
- rzzzt 3y agoLet's equip the addenda. It should enable us to withstand short bursts from a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range as well.
- Tomte 3y agoAt some point you could get it for 18 USD from ANSI, and later for about 30 Euros from the Estonian standardization office. Both offers had their prices, erm, fixed.
- josefx 3y agoYou joke about that, but people who blindly "know things" will refuse to even look at the standard. After all they already know what it says on the topic. So even carrying the standard around with you wouldn't help.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoProbably safe to say that everyone has issues.
- gumby 3y agoI've never successfully submitted a PR for someone's issues. Someday...
- tialaramex 3y agoYou'd have to print out your own, you can't actually buy a hard copy of any recent ISO C++. Some national standards bodies, entitled to do so, might claim they can sell you one when actually they've got a deal with a relatively local print-on-demand company, but because this standard is huge that company will reject the order so you in fact can't buy the product you'll get an apology, or a PDF or both despite specifically buying paper. Although their processes are hopelessly antiquated (fly to Hawaii to fix a typo? I don't think so), the result is, as you might expect in 2023 - just a bunch of document layout source, from which "draft" versions of the document are publicly available. Not as useful if you're getting burgled, or to raise a display off the desk, but more practical for real work.
- aidenn0 3y agoI find Stroustrup's book to be more accessible; the C++ spec can get rather math-y for some people.