Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> It's a multi paradigm language.

Being multi-paradigm is a different axis all around. Low-level (which is by the way not a well-defined concept, C is actually also high level, only assembly is low, but that usage is not that useful) means that low level details leak into your high level description of code, making the two coupled. You can’t make them invisible.

Also, as an example, think of Qt. A widget’s lifetime is absolutely not scope-based, nor is it living throughout the whole program. You have to explicitly destruct it somewhere. And there are plenty of other examples.

And as I said, I’m familiar with RAII, it’s really great when the given object is scope-based, but can’t do anything otherwise.

> C++ is a OOP language just like Java. You do it same way as you do in Java. Use inheritance.

And if the new subclass has some non-standard object life cycle you HAVE to handle that case somewhere else, modifying another aspect of the code. It is not invisible, unless you want leaking code/memory corruption.



> low level details leak into your high level description of code, making the two coupled. You can’t make them invisible.

It's your job to make it not to leak. You have to write Modern C++ wrappers around C libs.

Similarity, The same can be said for Java. You can do low level in Java.

C++ is not C. C++ has backward compatibility with C.

Look at Boost folks, they wrote a Modern C++ wrapper around a C HTTP parser.

> And as I said, I’m familiar with RAII, it’s really great when the given object is scope-based, but can’t do anything otherwise.

Nothing is impossible.

You can use Scope Exit Guard with QT Widget.

https://github.com/ricab/scope_guard

> And if the new subclass has some non-standard object life cycle you HAVE to handle that case somewhere else, modifying another aspect of the code. It is not invisible, unless you want leaking code/memory corruption.

Again, Scope Exit Guards solve your problem!




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: