Hello Alf,
* Jianwei Sun:
>Hello An**********@gm ail.com,
>>On Aug 10, 11:18 am, Jianwei Sun <jsunnewsgr...@ gmail.comwrote:
I am reading a peice of code which is at the following link: http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus4/...l#SECTION00712 30 00 000000000000 > The code is like this: > Object& StackAsLinkedLi st::Pop() { if(count==0 ) throw domain_error("s tack is empty"); Object& const result=*list.Fi rst(); list.Extrac t(&result); --count; return result; } Does this code return a reference to local variable result? If this is the case, then this code has problem? Thanks, J.W. The list extract function is here:
http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus4/...SECTION0052100 00 ...- Hide quoted text -
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If we ignore that result is a const and the return type is non-const, it would seem that the returned value (a reference) refers to an object that has been deleted inside the Extract function. This, of course, is wrong.
Thank you for verify, I just want to make sure I didn't miss something obvious since the author who maintains this tutorial is a very knowledgeable person and this book is a 5-star book on amazon.com
Perhaps the author is very knowledgable about data structures and
algorithms, but just doesn't know even the basics about C++ and
programming in general?
For the code isn't even syntactically correct and should not compile,
and the use of a reference here is extremely non-idiomatic and
misleading, but the basic algorith and data structure logic could be
sound: it seems that it could work, if expressed correctly, but that
could be like interpreting as favorably as possible the writings of a
chimpanzee posing as a college professor.
So, I'm pretty sure that if you look up the ACCU C++-oriented review
of that book it will be very far from 5 stars: on the other end of the
scale. ;-)
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
Thank you, and I like "that could be like interpreting as favorably as possible
the writings of a
chimpanzee posing as a college professor.".
However, I will still read this book, with more attention to the c++ code.
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