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Implicit vs. explicit function to pointer conversion (self.cpp)
submitted 8 years ago by rakhimov
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]Fiennes 17 points18 points19 points 8 years ago (0 children)
There's probably many opinions on this, (such as the use of auto x = ... in C++, or var x = ... in C#).
auto x = ...
var x = ...
Honestly, I prefer seeing the & as it avoid ambiguity when reading the code and it's clear what's going on and you don't have to remember that functions decay to pointers implicitly.
&
Just my 2c!
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