Re: Re: "I asked about dependency injection in C++ and people made fun of me"

On 11/04/2008, DanHinojosa <[email protected]> wrote:
>  The second post was simply as a subject"
>  Is it in the C++ culture to use Dependency Injection/Inversion of
>  Control?"  The body of the post was "Just that simple question....out
>  of curiosity."
>  The person who went ballistic read my first post and was familiar
>  (hopefully) with my background.

"Inversion of control" is a term that has been used in C++ programming
since the days of 16 bit Windows to refer to event driven, rather than
polled, I/O.  So to C++ programmers (or anyone who's programmed since
those days) it means something quite different from "Dependency
Injection" and was mis-applied to refer to "using constructors
properly and doing some auto-connection".  Asking whether it's in the
C++ culture to use event-driven I/O is an odd question -- it's an
orthogonal issue to the programming language -- and so I can see why
it would provoke some odd responses.

--Nat