Re: Why I love C++ so much.

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:

> is just soooooo much easier and more self-consistent and less typing than
> 
>   "%08x", x

Oh, don't be so hard on C++.  I mean, sure, some things are a little
clunky, but it makes up for it with such interesting compile errors:

example.cc:21: conversion from `double' to non-scalar type
`map<vector<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0>
>,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > > >,set<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> >,less<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > >,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > > >,less<vector<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> >,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > > > >,allocator<set<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> >,less<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > >,allocator<basic_string<char,string_char_traits<char>,__default_alloc_template<true,0> > > > > >' requested

Brian