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[–] ethancedwards8@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why is this a big mistake? I’m not a c++ person

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.

[–] ethancedwards8@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could you provide an example?

[–] timhh@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

The biggest problem is that each element doesn't have a unique memory address; iterators aren't just pointers.