On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:05:03PM +0200, Niels M�ller (med r�d bil) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
print "17". When reading the same code in a C++ program, you don't know a damn about what happens, until you have looked up the header
Well, if this is not your own code - sure, you don't know this for sure.
I personally don'z use ambiguous constructs, but _sometimes_ it is easy to use implicit references rather than explicit, though I barely remember more than two cases when I needed this :)
Pointer type in Pike would be very good idea anyway, regardless of implementation (implicit or explicit).
Another nice feature I would like to see in Pike is "goto" operator, but I guess this is only a dream :) Yes, I know that there are 1001 ways to avoid use of "goto", but again, sometimes one "goto" may save hundreths lines of code and easier to read and understand :)
Regards, /Al