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to: Gregg N
from: Geo
date: 2004-10-20 06:20:24
subject: Re: Organizing source code

From: "Geo" 

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
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> I thought you were asking about organizing the code you write. If it is
> not your code, and especially something like math.h which is part of
> your compiler's library, you probably don't have much flexibility in
> where they go.

I'm assuming there is some organization behind how they are stored though
and was wondering if you use that directory tree to store your code as well
so when you grep for something you don't have to grep everywhere.

> That would be a C-style string, which C++ also supports. For most new
> C++ development, it is recommended you use string objects instead of
> character arrays. That means using things like std::string,
> std::stringstream, string assignment instead of strcpy, etc. It sounds
> like your instructor is teaching you C, not C++.

It's possible, it's also possible that because it's a beginner class she
doesn't want to confuse us. Yet.. 

> http://www.research.att.com/~bs/new_learning.pdf

Thanks, downloaded it and will read it when I get a minute.

> You need to run away from this instructor and find a good one. The
> headers  and  are obsolete headers
that are not
> part of standard C++. They were part of a de facto standard circa 1998,
> but were made obsolete in 1998

We are learning C++ 6.0, if I wanted .NET programming languages I could
have signed up for those.

> I recommend you get a copy of

Thanks, all bookmarked.

> 16-bit characters). Looking up std::basic_string, you will see it has a
> member named "find".

Was this part of 6.0?

Geo.

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