Re: What would be considered "unusual" C++ code?
RyanMcCoskrie ha scritto:
I should have mentioned...
1. I don't have any doc's on the STDL other than the (obfuscated) GNU
headers.
If you want to learn STL you should definitely get some doc. There are
plenty of STL resources freely available on the internet. I just googled
and found this:
http://www.nongnu.org/stlfreedoc/download/stlfreedoc.pdf
which, at a first glance, seems pretty good, although it is incomplete
and lacks strings entirely.
Alternatively, there are some very good books you could buy.
As to gotos... I only use them in two ways:
1.
if ( /*reason the program _will_ work*/)
goto setup_foo;
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
setup_foo:
/*rest of code here*/
This is bad. What's the advantage of that code over:
if ( /*reason the program will _not_ work*/)
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
/*rest of code here*/
2.
switch( bar ){
case '1': goto handle_baz;
case '2': goto handle_wible;
default: return false;
}
handle_baz:
/*deal with baz*/
return true;
handle_wibble:
/*deal with wibble*/
return true;
That is also bad. What's the problem with:
switch( bar ){
case '1':
/*deal with baz*/
return true;
case '2':
/*deal with baz*/
return true;
default:
return false;
}
Just my opinion,
Ganesh
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