C++ High Performance - Mistaken Statements
I am a huge fan of using the language to communicate my intent, especially when it comes to function parameters, I've talked about this before in terms of simple typing (by utilising "using" statements - to give meaning to simple/trivial types) and const correctness. But being Christmas, I've had a C++ gift or two, and one of them is C++ High Performance by Victor Sehr and Bjorn Andrist , I've only spent a few minutes looking through this book, but one comment did jump out at me as odd... Not overtly wrong, just odd to me, maybe a different way to look at things... No, I'm not talking about their constant calling back to compare with Java (rolls eyes) I'm talking about the two stanza's at the bottom: "C++ Arguments passed as references indicates that null values are not allowed" No, no that's not the point of references, the point is that you do not allocate memory for and copy the values from the passed resource into a local value for us...