On: C No Evil

[copper]

Function calls seem right - particularly if they're badly written. Also, this macro might give curious results when passed in ptr++ .

While this is C++, I've actually seen this particular construct: delete new SomeClass(...);

used as, basically, an eye-poppingly clever way of initializing something, doing work, and then cleaning up after.

[tedunangst → copper]

    { SomeClass makeitso; }

:)

Also, free(ptr++) is broken by design, the post increment value is useless. But free(*ptr++) is a good case.

[copper → tedunangst]

> free(*ptr++)

Yes, of course - that's what I thought I'd written. Clearly not :)