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minus-squarebitcrafter@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoThe mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.
minus-squareethancedwards8@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoCould you provide an example?
minus-squaretimhh@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThe biggest problem is that each element doesn’t have a unique memory address; iterators aren’t just pointers.
The mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for
bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.Could you provide an example?
The biggest problem is that each element doesn’t have a unique memory address; iterators aren’t just pointers.