Re: How do get a specific version of a particular file?

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

Actually, there was a short while that we tried it.

In the end, we ended up using the C pre-processor (and some gcc hackery) instead, since it's just superior to the mess that is C++.

See "<asm/uaccess.h>" and various other header files, and realize that we have overloaded operations for things like "get_user()" and "xchg()" and friends.

Overloading of operators wouldn't be very useful, though: it really only pays in either real math (where having "+" etc do the right thing for complex numbers/vectors/matrices/whatever is totally unambiguous and just makes code a lot more readable) or with really trivial stuff (ie "+" for string concatenation).

Outside of math and really trivial stuff, it's just a horribly bad idea, because it just makes for subtle and hard to understand code.

Same largely goes for overloading of functions too, for that matter, except for the cases where you really can pretty much do it by argument size (and then the C preprocessor and few gcc extensions actually generate better and more readable code than C++ ever did - which is admittedly not saying a whole lot).

		Linus