Re: swap method in Java

From: Jezuch (jezuch_at_interia.pl)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:53:13 +0200

Użytkownik Roedy Green napisał:
> Me too. Keeping track of just how many levels of indirection, and the
> multiple ways to generate the same assembler code wasted so much time
> in writing C++. In Java you just have . and it always works without
> fuss. The increased maintainability and legibility was easily worth
> the loss of flexibility.

Yeah, I got burned by the "one level of indirection too far" effect recently
while coding a C++ program for my university class... I thought it was a bug
somewhere in STL but my colleague, a C++ fanatic, showed me my mistake.
Ohhhhhhhh, baaaaad Java habits! ;) 

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Ecce Jezuch
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I once one" - T. Meeks

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