Exceptional coding style

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:57:06 UTC, mist wrote:
>
> This is a single template operator in D so it kind of solves 
> the problem. First is tricky, but is exactly the reason 
> sometimes types from external libs are used only via 
> alias/typedef. I'd prefer something like 
> :%s/boost::unord/std::unord/g though :) But well, if you are 
> working with C++, then templates and mixins will hardly solve 
> most problems of course, because C++ templates sucks and mixins 
> do not even exist there.



Yeah I'm working in C++, not D.


But even if I was using D, there's no way in heck that I would 
use a _MIXIN_ for that:

mixin("I'm not sure how this is supposed too be 
readable").unordered_map!(int) a;

makes no sense to me at all, when I could just as well have said 
'boost'.



Also, the search/replace thing won't work so well for any 
real-world example (the second one is a lot closer to what I had 
in mind... you can't just replace "T" with "T, U" and expect it 
to work).


So my point is: no, it's not a simple matter of abstracting 
things away. Lined-up text really DOES make certain tasks easier 
than they would be otherwise.