Re: I'm a newbie. Is this code ugly?

From:
Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]>
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Date:
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:39:18 +0000
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I'm using a class which can sinksort an array of it's own objects and
an example T class, which can have names and stuff...
I was in doubt about what to do about nearly any line, so I would love
any of your recommendations...


what about this?


Horrible.

This code works, after a fashion, because those strings are all
literals. What
would happen if you were reading values from a file?


no problem, i make local copy


Still horrible.

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#define R return


Using macros to represent language keywords is inexcusable obfuscation.
Are you J*ff R*lf?

using namespace std;

char* faiMemCopia(char* v)


Why are you (badly) reinventing strcpy() ?

{int i, n;
char *p;
if(v==0) R 0;
n=strlen(v);
if(n<=0) R 0;


Why? There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a zero-length string.

p=(char*) malloc(n+1);
if(p==0) R 0;
for(i=0; i<n; ++i)
      p[i]=v[i];
p[i]=0;
R p;
}

class T{
public:
char *num_, *surname_;
char *key_;

T(){num_=0; surname_=0; key_=0;}

int alloca(char *num, char *key, char *surname)


This sets up the class invariant. Put it in a constructor.

{num_=0; surname_=0; key_=0;
 num_=faiMemCopia(num);
 if(num_==0) return 0;
 surname_=faiMemCopia(surname);
 if(surname==0)
      {la0:
       free(num_); num_=0;
       R 0;
      }
 key_=faiMemCopia(key);
 if(key_==0){free(surname_); surname_=0;
             goto la0;


Nice spaghetti.

            }
 R 1;
}

void Tfree(void)
{free(num_); free(key_); free(surname_);
 num_=0; surname_=0; key_=0;
}


This releases resources. Put it in a destructor.

};

class ArrArrT{
public:
T** v;
int n;
int sz;

 ArrArrT(){v=0; n=0; sz=0;}

 int add(char *num, char *key, char *surname)
 {if(sz<=n){T **p;
            p=(T**)realloc(v, (n+128)*sizeof(T*));
            if(p==0) R 0;
            sz=n+128;


Still no explanation for those magic 128s.

            v =p;
           }
  v[n]=(T*) malloc(sizeof(T));
  if(v[n]==0) R 0;
  if( v[n]->alloca(num, key, surname)==0)
               R 0;
  ++n;
  R 1;
 }

void sort()
{int i, hit=1, len=n;
T *temp;

 while(len>1&&hit)
    {len--;
     hit=0;
     for(i=0; i<len; ++i)
       if(strcmp(v[i]->key_,v[i+1]->key_)>0)
           {temp=v[i]; v[i]=v[i+1]; v[i+1]=temp; hit=1;}
    }
}

~ArrArrT(){int i=n;
           for(--i; i>=0; --i)
              {v[i]->Tfree();
               free(v[i]);
              }
           free(v);
          }

T& operator[](int i)
{static T no;
 if(i<0||i>=n)
   {cout << "\n\aIndice fuori dei limiti\n"; R no;}
 R *(v[i]);
}

};

int main(void)
{int i;
ArrArrT a;
i=1;
i*=a.add("a","Mann","Thomas");
i*=a.add("b","Satie","Erik");
i*=a.add("c","Goldfarb","Sarah");
i*=a.add("d","Ravel","Maurice");
i*=a.add("e","Hideyuki","Tanaka");
i*=a.add("f","Twain","Mark");
if(i==0) {cout << "Memory error\n"; R 0;}
a.sort();

for(i=0; i<a.n; ++i)
   cout <<a.v[i]->surname_<<"\t"<<a.v[i]->key_<<"\n";

for(i=0; i<a.n; ++i)
   cout <<a[i].surname_<<"\t"<<a[i].key_<<"\n";

R 0;
}


Sheesh.

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <ostream>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std; // SSM

struct Artist
{
    string surname_, firstname_;

   Artist(string const & surname, string const & firstname)
    : surname_(surname), firstname_(firstname) {}
};

ostream & operator<<(ostream & s, Artist const & t)
    { return s << t.firstname_ << ' ' << t.surname_; }

struct CompareSurname
{
    bool operator()(Artist const & a, Artist const & b) const
    { return a.surname_ < b.surname_; }
};

int main()
{
    vector<Artist> artists;
    artists.push_back(Artist("Mann", "Thomas"));
    artists.push_back(Artist("Satie", "Erik"));
    /* etc... */
    sort(artists.begin(), artists.end(), CompareSurname());
    copy(artists.begin(), artists.end(), ostream_iterator<Artist>(cout, "\n"));
}

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