Re: question about nullptr

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 13.07.2024 01:59, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 11.07.2024 01:25, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

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Without such an example, your argument seems to be overly generic.

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That's why I had problems to "explain" the reasons to you; because
it's so universal a property, so obvious (as I said), that I don't
know what else I could say.

 
Yes, that's been the clear for a while now.  That's why, when you said
you could not say more, I was happy to leave it at that (my "ok").

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You again strip the post where my try for an explanation follows:

Of course; I have nothing to say about your explanation.  I understood
it from the very first time you posted it (although I suppose I might be
mistaken about that).  Nothing about it is in dispute.  Should I have
kept it and ignored it?

What example could I give that explains that if you're looking for
specific dedicated semantical values it's easier to look them up
by [semantical] name than by a [ambiguous] number.

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Are those semantical names so meaningless to you?

No, I get it.

Let's take the 'bool' sample; do you find it more helpful to look
for numerical falues in the code than to look for standard literals
like 'true' and 'false'? (It's not much different concerning 'NULL'.)

I have no recollection of an occasion when searching for true or false
has ever helped me to find a bug.  If you do, please recount the story.
That's the sort of thing that has been missing (for me).

(But okay, given your last response patterns you seem to not be
interested.)

I have always been interested in hearing more about your experiences
about what you called "bug-tracking".  That's why I asked "can you say
more?".  And when you said "no" I thought that would be the end of it.

(By the way, I still don't know what you mean by bug-tracking.  I've
assumed you mean tracking as in tracking down, i.e. finding and fixing
bugs rather than the more usual meaning of logging and recording details
of known bugs.)

--
Ben.