Re: gtkmm and C++0x

[Murray Cumming <murrayc openismus com>]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 12:59 +0400, Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> > As soon as g++ supports a finally-standardized C++0x, I would be
> happy
> > to use it in examples.
> 
> Please keep in mind that explicit mentioning of the actual variable
> types
> in documentation / examples actually helped me with my learning
> process.
> Substituting the types with auto may diminish the educational value of
> the documentation.
> For example,
> Gtk::Widget* w = somefunc();
> is somewhat self-documenting in a way that we know that somefunc()
> returns
> Gtk::Widget* (or similar).
> You can, of course, always mention there that people with C++0x
> compilers
> can use auto instead of the actual type. 

I appreciate that, as I once strongly believed in hungarian notation. I
don't any more, though I can't explain why.

I do still get annoyed at Python code with variables of types that are
completely unknown even until runtime. It doesn't help that Python APIs
have awful documentation, of course.

I guess it would be enough to always use meaningful variable names. "w"
is a crappy variable name anyway.



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