Re: [Dev-C++] 'New Source File' bug

[Devin C. <dcc...@ya...>]

> Be patient, Dev-C++ 5 is coming.

  Good. :)  Though, bugs aside, I rather like Dev-C++ 4.

> >  I'm having enough 
> > trouble with C++'s noodleheaded view of aggregate data 
> > objects; this really isn't helping. 
> 
> 
> What trouble.

  Initializing an array/vector of objects, of which some of the 
members are consts.  That was my first problem.  My second 
was push_back() decided to stop working.  (This led me to 
look somewhat askance at vectors, and I still see them as 
exceedingly finicky things.)  Initializing a vector to anything 
interesting including constants without using push_back() is 
difficult; I ultimately solved the problem by ripping out almost 
every const in my project (not without some satisfaction)
and using a Set() function.  (I implemented a rudimentary 
sort of data protection by only allowing anything to be 
changed if the Name member was set to the constant 
NULLSTR.)  
  I've also had problems initializing vectors from arrays.
Vectors can be initialized in a wonderful panoply of ways,
all of which are thoroughly useless for my purposes.  It's
recently occurred to me that this is probably a job for an
overloaded assignment operator.  I'm not certain how to 
do this for a vector (while vectors are finicky, templates are 
just plain sticky, and I haven't read much about them 
because I don't expect to need them for a while.)
  Most of my problems, I can see, stem from the fact that 
I learned (and loved) C long before ever setting eyes on
C++.  (My first reaction to C++ was 'They've turned 
something beautiful into a hideous bloated beast.')  So I
despise references with a hate the KKK can only dream
of achieving, find consts to be a pain in the colon that
extends all the way up the intestines, and find C++ is
excessively schoolmarmish about initialization.  (Don't
get me wrong - I adore classes, inheritance, 
polymorphism and even strong typing.  On the whole, 
it's a much better language.

--Devin Carless
(Wow.  I didn't plan on ranting that much.)



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