DIP53 and DIP49 (ver2) - New definitions for qualified constructors and postblits
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Fri Dec 20 00:42:04 PST 2013
Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
> As far as I can see, it's learning a small extra meaning of
> 'const' in a context where it's quite intuitive, versus
> introducing an extra keyword which is used _only_ in this
> context and which is not entirely intuitive.
A new keyword is a flag that you have found something different.
It makes it simpler to learn.
> I'd have said the second would be more complex and more likely
> to lead to practical misunderstanding.
Giving different names to different ideas makes them less complex
:-)
(We are bikeshedding a little.)
Bye,
bearophile
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