davidagain

Now my spine is all tingly and I don't know what it means. I'm having some really weird feelings right now.

I read the title and became a lot confused. It doesn't help that the US calls those weiners.

In the nineties it produced the cleanest .rtf output of all the editors. Word makes toxic .rtf that unnecessarily turns formatting off and on at every line break and elsewhere too.

If it weren't for wordpad I wouldn't have learned how to output .rtf from my code.

RIP WordPad.

Now I had a mischievous long chuckle on the bus and the old ladies near me are a bit worried about me!

Indeed, indeed.

No need to apologise for posting c++ in the channel. The programming world owes a lot to Prof. Stroustrup. I enjoyed your reply a great deal.

You have two choices: firstly, a regular regular attribute, where you can Suckable myThing; and myThing.CheckAndSuck; etc to your heart's content, and indeed no global variables are being sucked.

But you can also declare static bool unsucked; and what is a class variable if not a global variable by another name?

In fact, what is to stop your innocent-sounding accessor method from nuking the filesystem or calling memLeak.recurse();?

I'm not sure that these things keep you up at night, but you have my sympathy if they do.

If there was anything I could do to help you relax after a stressful day of multiple inheritance and manual memory management, I would.

Well, except that of course. I mean, we all draw the line somewhere.

Unless we've had too much to drink or smoked too much weed, in which case boundaries seem less important at the time.

One time in college, my friend....

but no, that's another story for another thread.

Your naming advice is universally good.

However, if this was a functional programming language, there wouldn't be any mutable global variables to be unaware were being examined, nor could Suck do any sucking unless it were passed the thing to suck and returned the sucked thing.

In this way the subtle class of bugs that you both are warning against would be impossible to introduce.

Depending on the kind of sucking that Suck does, however, you may perceive the global invisibility and availability of the sucking as an advantage in this case. But possibly not if the code is your girlfriend/boyfriend.

Republicans: literally write "finish them" on Israeli bombs.

Lemmy.ml users: the important thing to learn here is not to vote for the more leftwing candidate. Only by giving electoral success to the most right wing party will we convince the more moderate party to move left. They will see the right win and all the polling show that right wing policies win elections and will realise that they should do the opposite of what the republicans did to gain power.

Endless memes. You rock.

So relatable.

Trump: bans Muslims from the USA as one of the first things he does as president. Muslims: he's our guy!

Mmmmm coriander, chickpea and chive.

You, sir or madam etc, are a genius.