Re: [Cppunit-devel] A new architecture ?

[Bastiaan B. <bas...@li...>]

Duane Murphy wrote:

>--8<---
>(3) Use of references. While pointers are evil, references are your
>friend. Const references are your best friend. They take up minimum
>space, they have maximum reliability (they cant be NULL), you cant modify
>
Hmm, AFAIK references take as much space as pointers. I suspect most 
compilers translate references and pointers to the same code. They 
certainly CAN be *NULL (and you'll segfault if you try to use them).
Personally I find having both pointers and references a not so elegant 
feature of C++.  But I must confess to have built up a distaste for many 
C++ 'features' over the years and to prefer the simplicity of Java.

Regards,

Bastiaan Bakker