Re: pseudo-specs for a String class: tokenization

On tor, 2008-09-11 at 10:03 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> You made the right choice. The "modifying methods modify their object"
> approach is more efficient and should be expected by most C++
> developers.

Yes, the other approach (return a new object) is used mainly for
operators.

  C = A + B;

Methods that operate like operators is mostly confusing and needs to be
learnt one by one.. Personally I prefer functions over methods for such
use..

  C = append(a, b)

Note: append is a bad example as the + operator is a very good semantic
match.. mostly interesting when there is no good operator to use.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Sep 12 2008 - 20:37:41 MDT