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A week of fprintfs has me wanting to code rust next week (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

C++ streams are ugly in their own right, but C++ preferred practice these days is to treat it as its own language rather than as a C superset. That is, lots of crufty old C stuff still works in C++ for legacy reasons, but using it when you don't have to is considered inappropriate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The real fun about treating C++ as a superset of C begins when you run into cases where the languages differ.

I'm not talking about classes and templates and stuff like that either, I'm talking about relatively simple syntax that people expect to be present in both languages.

if (1) int a = 42;

is valid C++, but will not valid C. That's because the definition of a what a statement is differs between the two and has since the 80s!