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Re:C++ – From goto to std::transform by pjmlp on Saturday April 12, 2014 @02:03AM (#7577124)
> How about this one: "C++ is horrible because of implicit copy constructors"? That one's not in C :-).

I also mentioned compatibility with C semantics.

"The Design and Evolution of C++" contains lots of such examples.

Re:C++ – From goto to std::transform by nitrogen on Saturday April 12, 2014 @02:52AM (#7577193)
C doesn't implicitly convert one struct into another. Why implicitly convert one class into another just because I created a constructor in one class that takes the other class as a parameter? The "explicit" keyword should have been "implicit", with the default behavior reversed.