Re: About conversions

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:

> In article <8vept5$814$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> (talking about converting actual "out" parameters)
> > If you use this feature, you will most definitely confuse
> > the reader, especially in the case of an out parameter,
> > precisely because the syntax is so confusing. Note that
>
> ...snip...
> You do have a point about it being confusing to some beginners. I'd
> imagine its particularly bad for those who are comming from another
> language that doesn't allow this kind of thing. But I don't think you
> can say that its an inarguable maintanence problem. It can be argued
> either way.

I agree. In fact, there are a great many things that will be confusing to
beginners ;-)  Are we really concerned about confused beginners?

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