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[Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>]

A good IDE should be able to open up auto and typedef in a tooltip. Clang
library helps here, for example Qt Creator uses it and shows the actual
type when I hover over auto.

Eeli Kaikkonen

su 24. marrask. 2019 klo 19.10 Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx)
kirjoitti:

> On 11/24/19 7:12 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> > Personally I hate OPT (because it’s somewhat harder to read and
> more-than-somewhat harder to debug).
>
> I tend to agree with Jeff.  The older I get, the less I like having to
> dig around the code base to figure out what is going on because
> templated code does tend to be less fun to debug.
> >
> > I also dislike auto, except in the case of stl::’s overly-verbose
> iterators.  Again, they make the code harder to read more often than not.
>
> I'm seriously rethinking typedefs as well.  I can never seem to remember
> the type they represent so I have to dig around the source to figure out
> the actual type.  I'm thinking just typing out the full type is easier
> in the shortened typedefed version which was most likely only created to
> save some typing.
>
> >
> > Maybe I’m just showing my age….
>
> Funny how age changes your perspective.
>
> >
> >> On 24 Nov 2019, at 11:13, Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the current consensus on using OPT types in the code? I know
> there are some instances where we are already using them from the Boost
> library (since our C++ version isn't high enough to include them), but is
> that considered a good type to use more of?
> >>
> >> I am curious, because I am thinking of replumbing the position storage
> in the tool events to use OPTs for the position, because that will allow
> for cleaner handling of the position in the tools, and also because I need
> to pass the positions into the selection routines, and being able to pass
> an OPT will greatly simplify things (I think).
> >>
> >> -Ian
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