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[-] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 6 points 1 week ago

That is why it is loved: it allows you to use ideas/objects the same way as you do as an engineer. Super cool.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

yes, but in this particular case I wouldn't want to second guess my decrement operation just happens to also be calling the white house or whatnot. Just make a method.

[-] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's just life of a C++ programmer: you second guess everything, and there are still optimization you haven't tried, and pitfalls you haven't got into

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago

Until the next person with a slightly different mental way of defining things comes along. Or just a future version of you.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

But when you do shoot yourself in the foot, it blows your whole leg off.

[-] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

As a shotgun. That's why people don't shoot themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

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