More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010)

Re:More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010) by chimeracoder on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:20PM (#9992711)

> only that 'const' in C-family languages has significant drawbacks

AFAIK this is pretty much limited to C and C++. Many (and I am willing to venture most, or at least the most-used) C-family languages that aren't C/C++ don't suffer this issue. Go and Javascript, for example, both use "const" in a way that doesn't modify the type of the underlying object.

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Re:More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010) by golergka on Sunday August 02, 2015 @07:20PM (#9992911)

I think that the scope of this discussion is limited to C/C++. If a programmer doesn't like immutability as a broad concept, he is clearly an incompetent imbecile (and I'm trying to write that as polite as possible, given the severity of the issue).

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Re:More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010) by bitwize on Sunday August 02, 2015 @07:16PM (#9992900)

"C-family languages" here means C, C++, Objective-C and D -- not any of the "look-like-C-but-have-completely-different-semantics" languages, or Go which is probably closer to proposed C replacement Alef than to C itself.

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