Lucky Pointing
by in Representative Line on 2012-07-24"When I look at the way that my predecessor wrote his code," Benedikt B wrote, "I can't help but wonder if he understood pointers as well as Kramer understood write-offs."
"The fact that our C++-based application manages to not crash for nearly a whole day is nothing short of a miracle, especially since the only decision process behind whether to use &
, *
, ::
, or –>
seemed to be whichever compiles and recovers the cleanest after a try/catch failure.