svn commit: r268491 - head/usr.bin/users

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 10 16:38:25 UTC 2014


On Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:04:56 am Ed Schouten wrote:
> On 10 July 2014 14:15, Pietro Cerutti <gahr at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > +using namespace std;
> 
> Out of curiosity, do we have any style guidelines w.r.t. C++? For
> example, I would personally not use things like "using namespace std".
> It becomes hard to figure out where symbols come from.

I would also prefer avoiding 'using namespace' when possible, especially for
a short program.

> > +       sort(begin(names), end(names));
> > +       vector<string>::iterator last(unique(begin(names), end(names)));
> 
> This could also just be a std::set, right?
> 
> Even though I actually think C++ is a lot nicer than C, do we really
> think it is actually worth proactively replacing already existent
> tools? This specific tool has now become three times as big as the
> previous version (7128 -> 23840 bytes).

It'd be even shorter code (and a larger runtime footprint) to write it in
python. :)

-- 
John Baldwin


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