How pleased I am never having to touch C++ any more! The template system was just as good at making things unreadable as the preprocessor, but had almost no useful expressive power.
By bete noir these days is trying to write code in XSLT (sometimes it's all you've got!). It's a perfactly fine toy functional language, but it is /so/ verbose, and full of syntactic bitters.
I don't think there's any excuse for the kind of opacity shown above. using namespace RandomNameSpace; would solve one half and a typedef abbreviating the template instance class the other.
As for templates vs cpp, I'd much rather use the STL than a cpp equivalent (though sometimes the latter would be much better than neither). They're definitely something that need to be used with care and taste, but that's at least as true of all but the most trivial uses of cpp too.
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By bete noir these days is trying to write code in XSLT (sometimes it's all you've got!). It's a perfactly fine toy functional language, but it is /so/ verbose, and full of syntactic bitters.
I don't think there's any excuse for the kind of opacity shown above. using namespace RandomNameSpace; would solve one half and a typedef abbreviating the template instance class the other.
As for templates vs cpp, I'd much rather use the STL than a cpp equivalent (though sometimes the latter would be much better than neither). They're definitely something that need to be used with care and taste, but that's at least as true of all but the most trivial uses of cpp too.
I love that coinage :)
(Good luck for the weekend!)