Re: Request for comment on my tiny learning project: dfighterdb (mytree)

dfighter said:

Han from China wrote:
dfighter wrote:
dfighterdb (I started it as mytree), is a tiny and simple
console based "database" application I'm writing as a learning
project.

If it's tiny, you may as well post the source code to the group.

Well, well, well. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

This has at least two advantages:

(1) Some people are unable or unwilling to check external links
or to unzip archives, so you've already lost their help.

(2) WWW links die all the time, but your posts will have a
relatively permanent existence in various Usenet archives.
There's a chance someone who's writing a similar application
could happen upon this thread years from now and want to know
what everyone in the thread is referring to.

Unfortunately it's not that tiny. It's only relatively tiny (~900
lines).

That's pretty tiny - okay, quite a large tiny, but nevertheless well
within Usenet limits (put LONG in the subject line as a warning to
the modem users amongst us, and you're covered). This isn't IRC.

(1) That's very unfortunate.
(2) You have a point, however I can always choose not to delete it
from the website ;)

Sometimes that isn't within our control. When I moved ISP, I left a
number of pages behind that I can no longer maintain. Worse still,
they're still there, so few people realise that the pages are no
longer maintained.

I hope this won't happen again (not because I won't move ISPs again,
but because I now do my own hosting, with Web forwarding).

ANYWAY - I did actually look through your code. I didn't have time
for a full review, I'm afraid, but before I realised this I did
spot a few minor conformance issues (the one I remember being
leading underscores on identifiers) and a design consideration (as
a matter of robustness you might want to take T** in your
destructors, rather than T*, so that you can set *p to NULL when
you're done).

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