R. Martinho Fernandes

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bio	website	rmartinho.github.com
	location	Berlin, Germany
	age	26
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I like to (re)invent wheels. I am starting to like Unicode. Despite what others might say, I am not a Unicode expert. I have a personal website.

When I quote the C++ standard, I do it from a relatively up-to-date build of the sources at http://github.com/cplusplus/draft. (last build August 29th, 2012¹)

Trying to contact me? I usually hang out by the C++ Lounge. If you prefer e-mail, I sometimes check this mailinator mailbox: M8R-gt1qwe@mailinator.com.

¹ it will remain a bit out-of-date until I get my build machine set up again; meanwhile, you can get a more recent official draft, N3485.

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May 15	comment	Why is 0 false? "It is a mathematical fact that 0 is false and 1 is true" Erm.
May 15	awarded	Organizer
May 15	revised	Why is 0 false? Better tags, I think.
May 15	suggested	suggested edit on Why is 0 false?
Mar 21	comment	Are generic programming and OOP mutually exclusive? @StefanoBorini Code speaks louder than words.
Mar 21	comment	Are generic programming and OOP mutually exclusive? @StefanoBorini that article is about how the two can coexist and even work together to be more than the sum of their parts.
Dec 20	comment	Does auto make C++ code harder to understand? Also note that having a properly named `x` would make knowing the type here even less interesting. At the end of the day, I think that responsible use of `auto` leads to much better names and thus more readable code.
Dec 20	comment	Does auto make C++ code harder to understand? Ok, it's somewhat better now. I still find the variable is poorly named, though, which still hurts. Were you to write `auto record = myObj.FindRecord(something)` it would be clear that the variable type was record. Or naming it `it` or similar would make it clear it returns an iterator. Note that, even if you did not use `auto`, properly naming the variable would mean you don't need to jump back to the declaration to look at the type from anywhere in the function. I removed my downvote because the example isn't a complete strawman now, but I still don't buy the argument here.
Dec 20	comment	Does auto make C++ code harder to understand? This is a clear example of bad naming hurting readability, not really auto. No one has the faintest idea what "DoSomethingWeird" does, so using auto or not won't make it any more readable. You will have to check the docs either way.
Dec 20	comment	Does auto make C++ code harder to understand? Exactly. Who the heck cares about the type. It's an iterator. I don't care about the type, all I need to know is that I can use it to iterate.
Dec 20	comment	Does auto make C++ code harder to understand? Do you really need to check the return type every time? Why isn't the type clear from the code? `auto` can often makes things harder to read when they are already hard to read, i.e., functions too long, variables poorly named, etc. On short functions with decently named variables, knowing the types should be one of #1 easy or #2 irrelevant.
Dec 4	comment	for vs. foreach vs. LINQ That's why the loop goes into the implementation, and then you use Intersect everywhere.
Oct 5	comment	What functionality does dynamic typing allow? Just a note: Mono's `csharp` is a REPL (not "a kind of", a real one) for C#.
Jun 5	comment	Why are there so many string classes in the face of std::string? @user1202136 No, the `std::string` specification does not make sense when taken out of its context and thrown into another context. That should be obvious, really. Its context starts with the following paragraph: "This Clause describes components for manipulating sequences of any non-array POD (3.9) type. In this Clause such types are called char-like types, and objects of char-like types are called char-like objects or simply characters."
Jun 5	comment	Why are there so many string classes in the face of std::string? It's not like fbstring properly handles Unicode either.
May 30	comment	Single Responsibility Principle - How Can I Avoid Code Fragmentation? I know what the flamethrower is for, but how the heck do you fish with a pole?
Apr 1	comment	Is there a language between C and C++? @MasonWheeler strings (i.e. char arrays) are not a value type in C. You can't pass arrays by value in C (well, not without adding a struct wrapper and setting a maximum size).
Feb 28	comment	Is it possible to combine programming languages? This might be relevant: chrisseaton.com/katahdin
Feb 6	comment	Is C++11 Uniform Initialization a replacement for the old style syntax? +1 Nailed it. I'm deleting my answer since yours addresses all the same points in much more detail.
Jan 25	comment	Why didn't the C++ Standard adopt expression templates? @sbi ah, that makes sense.