C considered harmful

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 5 02:08:49 UTC 2003


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Peter Hiscocks wrote:
> So, it is an interesting challenge to the language writers to create
> something that has the power of the C language and still does (say)
> automatic checking of array bounds.

It's not that hard, if that is all you want.  In particular, if you work
in C++ and *always* use its library string and vector types (which have
built-in bounds checks in many implementations) rather than C arrays, the
problem is more or less solved. 

If one finds C++ unappealing, which is certainly a defensible position :-),
then there's more of a problem.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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