Re: C coding

While I empathize, and certainly C++ also allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, the code shown is philosophically (imo) a mix of C and C++ in that it uses char *s. Assuming both variables are strings then I would code it as follows and avoid dipping into 'dangerous' char * territory.

partName.insert(0, userName.substr(start, len));

(If I'm understanding the objective correctly)

Marc

On 2/13/2014 9:02 AM, Tim Bronski wrote:

On 2/13/2014 5:23 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

I would have said that C was brilliant if your aim was to shoot yourself in the foot and C++ does a better job of protecting you.

Hi Jon, I would have let that slide but I've just finished tracking down
a bug where c++ was using a different overloaded string function than
the one intended. Here's what the statement should have been:
partName.insert(0, &userName[start], len);
but instead it was
partName.insert(0, userName[start], len);

This compiles fine but the result was heinous...the c compiler would
have caught that one.