Re^3: AND OR (C meth)


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Re^3: AND OR (C meth)

by tye (Sage)

on May 14, 2006 at 16:29 UTC ( [id://549335]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Heh, you hit a C pet peave of mine. This:

if( objPtr != NULL && objPtr->foo ){ ... }
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doesn't actually call any methods. You need objPtr->foo() for that. And the ANSI C committee should have made the "&" for getting a pointer to a method mandatory instead of optional and discouraged, as needing to do that is relatively rare, rarer than the mistake of not realizing that C requires the parens unlike several other quite similar languages. Further, this particular mistake usually results in compiler output that is quite difficult to diagnose, IME.

- tye