Re: failing row[] assignment

From: Jeff Huston <hustonfamily(at)hotmail.com>
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 15:57:11 EDT

"I don't know why you're playing documentation lawyer but overlooking the bit right above that where it says not to use get_string(). I didn't advise you to use it, and I won't advise you to use it. "

Actually I was just providing you with one poor response to use in place of your first poor response. I'm sticking with my initial type casts. :op

Good day!

>From: Warren Young <mysqlpp@etr-usa.com>
>Reply-To: plusplus@lists.mysql.com
>To: MySQL++ Mailing List <plusplus@lists.mysql.com>
>Subject: Re: failing row[] assignment
>Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:51:19 -0600
>
>Jeff Huston wrote:
>>"A static cast like that should never be required for an assignment in a
>>C++ program."
>>
>>Wouldn't it be just as easy to say, "Hey Jeff, you'd be better advised to
>>use get_string().". Disgegarding the comment in coldata.h which says..
>>'If you know your data is a null-terminated C string, just cast this
>>object to const char *...' " :o)
>
>I don't know why you're playing documentation lawyer but overlooking the
>bit right above that where it says not to use get_string(). I didn't
>advise you to use it, and I won't advise you to use it.
>
>>Of course I realize this is all the result of a multi person,
>>collaborative effort.
>
>Actually, it's more that by "cast" here we just mean to point out that
>ColData can convert itself to const char*, not that you must use a static
>cast to get this to happen.
>
> ColData cd("....");
> const char* pc = cd;
>
>I've changed this to be clearer.
>
>>Anyway, I'm sure the Don Rickle's style responses here no doubt have their
>>own appeal to the rest of the audience who actually know what they're
>>doing. As for me... I'll quietly sink back into the shadows now. :o)
>
>This style of interaction is absolutely standard on programmers' mailing
>lists. Open source is a meritocracy. Post a silly question, get gently
>roasted, if not flamed. You want to see comedic brutality in much finer
>form than is generally exhibited here, go spend some time on the Cygwin
>lists.
>
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Received on Fri Aug 3 15:57:31 2007