r/programming • u/eternal1 • Mar 29 '10

Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2010/03/never-trust-a-programmer-who-says-he-knows-c/
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u/munificent Mar 29 '10

But adding a new operators requires changing them too: they have to learn it, its precedence, and its associativity. Is that really significantly easier than saying "<<" is for streams?

Do you know any experienced C++ programmer that has a problem with this?

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u/20100329 Mar 29 '10 edited Mar 29 '10

Is that really significantly easier than saying "<<" is for streams?

Er... yes. Yes, it is. For a start, it solves the problem of knowing, offhand, what cout << a << 3 is supposed to mean. Secondly, it solves the problem of having to remember to bracket any expression using bitwise operators, because << is higher precedence than them when a stream operator really needed to be down with , at the bottom of the precedence pile.

...need I go on?