Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Julio Di Egidio Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: So You Think You Can Const? Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:23:07 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20250107130809.661@kylheku.com> <87a5c15ob0.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87ldvk4wu7.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <875xmn4lmy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <8634hr8muh.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:23:08 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="446cad480bddd27261ea93e1a12409be"; logging-data="1902320"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19g83LQ3sqVCnoOqfzoIdjPl+fy7vTCd0o=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:QORzHXQHNadRgchqIJuYMnpAwjM= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2544 On 13/01/2025 09:58, David Brown wrote: > On 13/01/2025 04:10, James Kuyper wrote: >> On 1/9/25 21:51, Julio Di Egidio wrote: > You can of course also argue that it is best to have the code ordered > according to the normal flow of operations - error handling in the > middle of the normal code flow can make it hard to follow the algorithm > of a function.  (C++ exceptions are an extreme version of this.)  Some > people might prefer a compromise: Some people are just wrong and not even honest at that. **Please don't mind and don't feed the trolls**: I had the misfortune of calling out the utter and ugly bullshit from these characters in the past in other groups: this gang of nazi-retarded and mostly academic spammers and polluters of all ponds just hates my guts since then. BTW, on that C++ vs C issue (you know who you are), I respect that but I'd say it's wrong: C and C++ share nothing but some syntax, and one is high-level, not the other... Thanks again and please use a kill-file: I do. Cheers, -Julio