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A comment on The Myth of Smart Pointers.

Re:The Myth of Smart Pointers by calamari4065 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @06:10PM (#38480562)
So his argument is smart pointers are useless bullshit because external libraries that don't support smart pointers don't support smart pointers.

Yeah okay, sure.

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Re:The Myth of Smart Pointers by afc on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:42AM (#38484575)
And when he manages to show that smart pointers can be misused and lead to obscure crashes, what's his solution? Just use raw pointers.

Those can't be misused ... right?

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Re:The Myth of Smart Pointers by calamari4065 on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:42PM (#38495368)
No C++ programmer in the history of computer science has ever shot themselves in the foot with a raw pointer. Absolutely not, it's unthinkable!
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