Re: C coding

While I empathize, and certainly C++ also allows you to shoot yourself 
in the foot, the code shown is philosophically (imo) a mix of C and C++ 
in that it uses char *s. Assuming both variables are strings then I 
would code it as follows and avoid dipping into 'dangerous' char * 
territory.

partName.insert(0, userName.substr(start, len));

(If I'm understanding the objective correctly)

Marc

On 2/13/2014 9:02 AM, Tim Bronski wrote:
> On 2/13/2014 5:23 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
>> I would have said that C was brilliant if your aim was to shoot yourself in the foot and C++ does a better job of protecting you.
> Hi Jon, I would have let that slide but I've just finished tracking down
> a bug where c++ was using a different overloaded string function than
> the one intended. Here's what the statement should have been:
> partName.insert(0, &userName[start],  len);
> but instead it was
> partName.insert(0, userName[start],  len);
>
> This compiles fine but the result was heinous...the c compiler would
> have caught that one.

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