You guys are so fucking stupid. When I was in high school 15 years ago, I didn't read any of the books my teachers assigned me either. I was busy reading better books. They were already assigning excerpts of plays instead of reading it all. Kids still read books they just have better taste than you.

what I couldn't give for updated book lists. bonus points for including books that haven't been adapted to film lol.

Whoops I didn't notice that date, sorry.

"because it has all the same issues"

It does not, the problem demonstrated in the post is not applicable to c++ since the function should just accept an std::span(an array pointer+size, also can be implicitly converted to from std::array) and the problem would be gone.

That's why you use std::unique_ptr

you're working with some very old material if it's still recommending raw pointers or C arrays en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/contai...

I used to be an assembler like you. Then I took a pointer to the knee.

There are two ways to use C++

1) It's a new language that happens to be backwards-compatible with C.

2) It's C with a whole bunch of new features.

If you're using arrays or pointers instead of templates, you're doing (2). If your name isn't Linus Torvalds, you're not smart enough to do it safely.