What's the deal with "Warning: explicit element-wise assignment..."

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Wed Apr 30 04:20:39 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 11:13:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> walkLength is a really good name. Clear, concise, to the point. 
> It's not often that you can make such a short name that 
> explains the behaviour so well.

Actually it isn't a good abstraction as it exposes implementation 
internals.

The name should indicate what you get (the calculating of a 
result), not how the framework obtains it (sequential scan).

"walk" indicates that you can use a visitor-pattern, thus it is a 
misleading name.

(Not that it matters.)


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