Re: Help needed for STL ifstream class
On 2007-10-05 17:59:37 -1000, Kira Yamato <kirakun@earthlink.net> said:
Just a side comment here: One reason I found STL extremely difficult
to get into is that because of the extreme difficulty in figuring out
what the error messages are saying.
Yup. It's hard. It helps to practice: write code with deliberate errors
and see what your compiler gives you for error messages. In the next
revision of the standard, "concepts" will improve this situation
considerably. Template writers will be able to decorate them with
information about what the template requires from its arguments, so the
compiler can give better error messages.
Even after it compiles fine, I can't begin to imagine how difficult it
is to debug a STL heavy program.
Debugging is usually straightforward. Those layers of templates usually
collapse into fairly simple code.
--
Pete
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Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference
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