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diff --git a/results/scraper/fex/1678 b/results/scraper/fex/1678 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c35c4c60 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/fex/1678 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Make object ownership, lifetime and non-nullable pointers more obvious +Follow up from #1671 from discussion with @neobrain + +> Better tracking allocation/free responsibilities, as well as nullable pointers would be an interesting code quality improvement. + +Myself I'm not much of a fan of C++ references, mostly because of the confusion they can create over what is a pointer and what is not, and I mostly use to rename locals in functions. The codebase mixes in pointers and references in arbitrary ways, which can create confusion. + +There's a couple of arguments for using more references, to communicate among other things +- non nullable uses +- pointer constness +- Allocation / Free semantics + +We could easily track these with some annotating templates, and avoid references, or we could go full in references and whatnot. + +Thoughts? |