[OT] initialisation in C++

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 June 2017 at 18:08:46 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> All the help is valuable but C++ code can be impossible to 
> understand (in reasonable time) for IDEs as well.

Probably, but when you write code with a set of tools you adapt 
patterns so the tools and what you do with the tools match up. So 
taking over a convoluted code base is different from writing a 
new program.

But there clearly are certain areas of generic programming with 
constructors and initializers that can be surprisingly 
challenging in C++. If you want mix templated constructors that 
take lists of literals and many other types then you have to be 
careful to get the correct constructors to match up properly with 
the actual arguments provided. The rules of resolution are 
difficult to remember, which is rather counter productive.

In C++ I have found that giving up some generic ambitions and 
making generic types simpler is the best way to stay productive. 
Probably true for any language, but especially true for C++ I 
think.